["Petition For Divorce", The West Australian, Tuesday 12 December 1911, page 7]
Petition For Divorce.
Decree Nisi Granted.
Question of Costs Reserved.
Melbourne, Dec. 11.
The hearing of the suit in which Abraham Davis, 48 years of age, of Carlton, business manager, petitioned for a disolution of his marriage with Sarah Davis, 40 years of age, on the grounds of desertion and misconduct with J. M. Haterick[sic], of Sydney, commercial traveller, was resumed in the Divorce Court today. The respondent and the co-respondent entered an appearance without filing an answer, and were represented by Mr. J. McFarlane on the question of costs only. The petitioner, re-examined, said that in 1908 he brought his wife from Western Australia to Melbourne and took her to three different doctors. He returned to his business in Western Australia, and since February 1908, he had never seen her.
Leonard McCallum, a secret service agent, said that in May of this year he saw the respondent, the co-respondent, and Miss Davis several times in Sydney. They were living in Macleay-treet, Potts Point, in Mrs. Fuller's house. On four different evenings he had seen the respondent going away with the co-respondent.
A decree nisi was granted on the grounds of misconduct. Judgment on the question of costs was reserved.
