Mr. Tasker as “McGoosley”: Further Evidence To-day: The hearing of the Tasker Divorce suite was resumed this morning, Mr. Tasker cross-examined, said he taunted his wife with being a butcher’s daughter, because she wanted to make out she had so many swell friends. He accompanies his wife to one of the masquerade balls, dressed as Mr. McGoosley, in Ally Sloper (laughter). Miss Tasker deposed to stopping at hotels with Mrs. Tasker when Paton was there. Mrs. Tasker was always about with one man or the other. Witness never saw any act of familiarity or impropriety either with Mr. Paton or Lowe. Ellen Pinsent, formerly a chambermaid at a Plymouth hotel, said that when the parties stayed there, Mr. Paton occupied a bedroom opposite Mrs. Tasker’s. Two- or three-nights Paton’s bed was not occupied, and Mrs. Tasker’s looked as if two had slept there. She once saw Mr. Paton coming out of Mrs. Tasker’s bedroom, and thought they were married people. Cross-examined: She did not know that the gentleman some nights went to Torquay.
[see similar Dundee Courier: Thursday 11th July 1895: & Nottingham Evening Post, Wednesday 10th July 1895] [see also South Wales Daily News: 11th July 1895]
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GRO0247 Hennock: Ellen Maud Pinsent: 1872 – xxxx (?)