Before Mr. Justice McCardie in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice went one of those periodic scandals that causes the various strata of British society to experience the gamut of emotions.
The dramatis personae of the trial:
Lieutenant Colonel Ian Onslow Dennistoun, defendant.
Dorothy Muriel Dennistoun, plaintiff, divorced wife of the above.
Almina, Dowager Countess of Carnarvon, second wife of Colonel Dennistoun.
The late General Sir John Cowans, Quartermaster General of the British Expeditionary Force during the War, held to be "the best quartermaster since Moses."
Sir Ellis Hume Williams, counsel for...
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