Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Saturday 30 August 1902 - article
"LANCE v. LANCE.
Cruelty and adultery with some persons unknown to the petitioner were the grounds upon which Elizabeth Ada Lance (formerly Guy) sued, before Mr. Justice Walker, for a dissolution of her marriage with Alexander Lance, which ceremony was performed at Newtown, on November 16, 1893, according to the rites of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. The petitioner stated that she was under age when they were married, and her parents being dead, a written consent was given to the ceremony taking place by her guar-dian. In October last they were living at Pad-dington, and on the 11th of that month her hus-band came home to dinner, and said he was going to the theatre. At first he said he wes going with a friend, and a little later that he was going with a lady. He never came home that night (Friday). On the Saturday night he went to kiss her good-night, and she refused to let him do so. He remained away from home on the Saturday night, and returned to his dinner on the Sunday. He remained at home that night, and during the early part of it he asked for the £14 he had given her on the Friday. She asked him for £2 to purchase something for the children, and he told her to "Go to ---- and get it; he would not give it to her." When she ask-ed him not to be going on as he had, for the sake of the children, he said he intended to "keep that woman," and if she mentioned the matter to his people he would sell up the home. On the Sunday night (October 13) he went upstairs, and tried to kick her down. He went out on the Monday morning, and did not return home till

Tuesday night. He remained at home that even-ing. With the exception of the Sunday and Tues-day nights in October, he had not slept at home since. He used to come to dinner every day, and leave immediately after. She saw him with a certain woman in William-street, about Christ-mas time, and again with the same person in Ox-ford-street about the beginning of the present year. When she saw him with the woman in Oxford-street he raised his hat to her, and when she asked him why he dared raise his hat to her when he was in that woman's company, he re-plied, "She is as good as you are, and better." Some time later, from something she had been told, she asked him why he had dared to take the woman to Newcastle as his wife, where she (petitioner) was so well known. When he asked ber if she intended suing for a divorce, she told him she had placed the matter in the hands of a solicitor. When the petition was served on him, he admitted that every word in it was true. On one occasion she saw him on the balcony of

a house in Darlinghurst-road with the same woman, and the following morning she saw him leave the house between 8 and 9 o'clock. She went to the landlady, and asked who the gentle man was who bad just left her house, and she re-plied it was 'Mr. —— , who occupies the balcony room.' Prior to October last, she had not lived with her husband as man and wife for over twelve months. The cause was not hers. From docu-ments she bad seen, her husband's earnings averaged £10 a week. His Honour granted a decree nisi, returnable in three months, the peti-tioner to have the custody of the children (3). The respondent was ordered to pay the costs of the suit, and to give the petitioner 30s a week permanent alimony."

NSW Marriage cert No. 5553/1893 states that the marriage of Alexander LANCE and Elizabeth A GUY was registered in the district of Newtown NSW in 1893.