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Newspaper Mention - Allan Alexander Cameron & Mildred Fanny Hayden

Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), Sun 5 Oct 1941, Page 44

Transcription:
COUPLE'S MIXED MORALS: DECREE FOR WIFE
TALK about scrambled eggs and omelettes! Hamburgers! Plum puddings with everything chucked in! Soup made on all the vegetables and bones about the kitchen! Cocktails made on anything from methylated spirits to fly-killer! And anything else you like to think about well shaken and mixed.

NONE of them has anything on the muddle and mixed matrimonial affairs and morals of Allan Alexander Cameron, of Wade Street, Leeton, and Mildred Fanny, his wife, who lives in Emily Street, Leichhardt. Both have had their affairs — Allan with a Mrs. Yvonne Knight and Mildred with a gentleman by name David Harvey.

Nice dancing skeletons in the Cameron cupboard they were, and they rattled out right merrily into the Divorce Court the other day
when Justice Sir Percival Halse Rogers gave Mrs. Cameron a decree because of her husband's adultery with Mrs. Knight. Cameron earlier had fired a legal shot or two by charging her with adultery with Harvey, but when seconds hopped out of the legal ring, he didn't go on with the battle and left the arena to her except on the question of costs and custody.

The first 18 months of the marriage were happy, and then there was a change in the man. Mrs. Cameron said he started to knock
her about. Now, it happened that while they were in Leeton, she first met Harvey at a tennis club, and her husband got into the habit of accusing her of going out with him, although she wasn't. But when he capped it with allegations of adultery, she, of course,
denied this, too.

The breaking point was reached the time he got her by the throat and pulled her out of bed. She begged him to stop, she said, and
tried to get out of the house, but he threw her on to the bed and said, "I'll cut your throat."

That was the end — next day she packed her ports and departed hence. Later she went to Yass, and there again met Harvey, who was to loom so largely in her life. It happened that at the time, she had been left a house, and when she sold it for £300, Harvey offered to invest the cash for her.

Bought Business
Thus, they came to Sydney together, she bought a business in the Big Smoke, and Harvey used to visit her. However, Mrs. Cameron admitted adultery — once — with Harvey, and he'd marry her as soon as she was free. As a matter of fact Harvey himself came to court and admitted his love incident with Mildred and told the judge that he wished to wed her. As for Cameron, Mrs. Knight also hied her to court and confessed that she had committed adultery with the other woman's husband.

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