THE STANDARD

London, England

25 November 1909

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MAN WITH MANY NAMES.

Lord Salvesen heard evidence in an undefended divorce suit by Rose Edith Kelly, or Skerrett, or Crowley, against Alister Macgregor Crowley, formerly called Edward Alexander Crowley, of Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness-shire, and residing at Warwick-road, Earl’s Court, London.

The plaintiff, who is 35, said that she was married in 1897 to Captain F. T. Skerrett [Frederick Thomas Skerrett], who died two years later. In 1902 she met the defendant in Paris in the studio of her brother, Mr. Gerald F. Kelly, an artist. The defendant than called himself Count Skellet, although she knew his real name. Later he called himself Macgregor, and afterwards Lord Boleskine.

Evidence having been given, his lordship said that he thought he might assume that the defendant’s domicile was Scottish, whatever it was originally. He granted a decree, with the custody of the child, and £52 a year aliment for the child [Lola Zaza].