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TRUTH. SUNDAY. APRIL 11. 1943Straying Husband CaughtRed-Handed WithHis Redhead“YOU’RE telling me!” Mrs. Rona Joyce Vollmer (formerly Burnett), 24, of 17 The Strand, Rockdale, might well have said that when her husband, Mervyn . Augustus Vollmer (33),R.A.A.F., told her he was dallying with another dame.You see, Mrs. Vollmer knew something. “She’s a redheaded woman,” she fired back at Vollmer when he acquainted her of his association with the other lady. Whatever the extent of his surprise,Vollmer had to admit that the woman was copper-headed.Which goes to show that Mrs. Vollmer was a woman of vision and knew all the answers to the illicit amours of her unfaithful spouse.AMrs. Rona Joyce Vollmer. who. because her husband preferred a cop per- hairedtirl friend, went olfool after the redhead and obtained evidence for divorce.Mr. JusticeStreetMAN FINED FOR ASSAULT ON TICKET COLLECTORKAII in which she and a private inquiry agent caught her husband and the red-head' in a flat at Darlinghurst was described in the Divorce Court dur- —----mg the week, when Mrs. Vollmersought a divorce on the ground of Vollmcr's adultery with Mrs. Patricia llarrison.COME people are slaves to custom, hut there are limits. ^ For instance, it was a bit thick when husky munitions worker, Walter Irwin Burns (23), storeman, on April 3, at Central railway station pushed tickets in the face of a woman collector, slapped her on the face, grabbed her by both wrists, swung her against the wall and, when apprehended, said that he “was sorry, but it is a way I have.'PHAT was whv Burns found himself the chin to tell her the chap ahead 1 forking out .fc3 with 30s witnessexpenses at Central Police Court lastweek foi assaulting Mrs. Ida Sloan, the collector.According to Burns. Ida was no wilting weak woman, as she had said to him. I won t let a - manhad the tickets. said Burns.Police Prosecutor: Is that theusual way to catch peoples attention?—Her face was sticking out and I couldn't help hitting her.slap my face. and had grabbed his coat sleeves. He had a struggle to get free, he said.The storMiss Iris Thompson, of Woolgoolga. Burns’ sister-in-law, said that Mrs. Sloan slapped Burns on the face and crossed his arms in front of him. She .seemed pretty strong. She hadMrs. Vollmer. who wed her Mervyn Augustus in October. 1938. at Kogarnh.1 said that in July last year Vollmer told her he wanted her to divorce him.I am in love with another woman and as soon as I am free we are going to be married. Vollmer said.Yes, she is a red-headed woman —the one I've seen you with before. his wife replied.Vollmer admitted that Mrs. V. had the right oil about the color of the lady's coiffure, and he also admitted that he had been living with this woman. Mrs Vollnu-r said.My husband said to me: '1 can quite see that you and I an not suited to one another and we arc only wasting each other's lives We should N ■ separated ” Mrs Vollmer told Mr I Justice StreetBustle And Scurry”Mrs. Vollmer then went on to telry against Burns was that Burns up against the wall and he ap- how ^ engaged a private inquin Mrs. Sloan asked a man at the bar- pea red to nave trouble in getting aKent named Henri Joseph Dykes itner for his ticket and he told her away. I watch Vollmer and how. on Septem-that Burns, his mate who was follow- lvan Thompson the brother-in- ber 26. she and Dykes raided No. 1 ing had it Then the assault as de- lftW a banana grower from Wool- Plat. Cliveden Flats. No. 2 Roslyn scribed took place goolga. told a similar story and added Avenue. Darlinghurst. and there fount)Burns, who lives at 265 underwood | Mrs Sloan used some pretty Vollmer enseonseri with the red-hencl-Street. Paddington, said that he was hurrying to catch a train to Auburn with his sister-in-law and brother-in-law. The latter had the tickets and Burns got left behind.I was nearly through the harrier and I touched Mrs. Sloan onthreatening language.Recalled. Mrs. Sloan said that she eould not have slapped Burns' face as she had a pair of heavy clippers in her hand. She said she never used bad language.vb BBrrinnnnnrimrB o jnrmrLEND NOW . . . SPEND LATER!Come On Australia,INVEST IN THEFormats for 70 yearsTiiinnVollmer ensconsed with the red-head ed Mrs. Harrison We rang the bell and heard a bustle and a scurry inside Then after a period of silence. Mrs, Harrison. wearing a house frock and sandals. half opened the door and wt rushed past her into a room where we saw a double bed. The bedclothes and pillows were all disarranged anc obviously had been slept in very re-rontW' hv turn '• n.iil Kintwo people. said Mrscently bv Vollmer.Through the glass between llie bedroom and the verandah I could see the shadow of a man. I went out on to the verandah, and there saw my husband, who was clad onh in trousers and singlet and was barefooted. Before going out on to the verandah I had noticed an Air Force tunic in the lounge.Mr. Dykes said to my husband. Your wife is taking divorce proceedings against you on the ground ofSour adultery with this woman You ave been Jiving with her as Mr. and Mrs. Harrison.*To this my husband rrplied: Youare the biggest pair of I knowof.” Mrs. Vo.Jmer declared.A decree nisi was. pronouncedMr E. Little lor Mrs. Vollmer
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Sun, Apr 11, 1943
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