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Lightening the gloom brought by the recent deaths of his wife and daughter, and deepened by the tragic death of his Palm
Springs hostess, Mrs. Gordon Coutts, Sir John 's grand-daughter, the Honorable Ann Forbes Sempill, arrived from Scotland just before the auto smash-up. Lavery and the late Gordon
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An interesting point was raised in
Criminal Court yesterday in connection with the Gordon Coutts case. Criminal proceedings were taken in this case under the authority of the act which was passed last session, making it an offence for any person against whom a maintenance order has been granted to
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Gordon Coutts, a well-known artist, who was arrested in
Wellington, New Zealand, and brought to Melbourne on a charge of disobeying an order of the Fitzroy court for the maintenance of his lawful wife, and who was remanded last Tuesday, appeared at the City Court yesterday, when the case was
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Gordon Coutts, the
Scottish artist who came to Omaha several months ago and opened a studio has filed a petition for divorce in district court. He sets forth that he married his wife, Jessie in Glasgow December 3, 1889, and that she abandoned him February 1, 1901. His wife is a
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Moroccan-style house which they named "Dar Maroc" (also spelt "Dar Marroc"), and Coutts became one of Palm Springs's most famous residents. Dar Maroc played host to numerous celebrities over the years, including John Lavery,
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per week for the two of them. However, Coutts stopped making payments in
October 1901, and when he decided to leave Australia in 1902, he attempted to evade the court order by purchasing a ticket under a false name. He was arrested in
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evade obedience to it by going to reside outside the boundaries of
Victoria ... Owing to the unusual course taken in Coutts's case, it is not likely the matter will be taken any further, just now at all events.
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message on the way to request a postponement so that he could arrive in time, which he did. He was persuaded not to challenge the request, and Alice remarried a few months later.
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proceeded with ... Coutts had on him ÂŁ65 odd in cash, a credit note for ÂŁ700, and a first class ticket to
England in the name of "Mr. W. G. Taylor." He had with him also, as
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