Tasker Divorce Suits: 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 that she had so many swell friends. He accompanied his wife to one of the masquerade ball dressed as Mr. McGooseley 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 Mr. Lowe. Ellen Pinsent, formerly 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. Taskers looked as if two had slept there.
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GRO0247 Hennock: Ellen Maud Pinsent: 1872 – xxxx