difficult for him to mix in polite society. A contemporary, the Australian political adviser to the Chinese Republic George Ernest Morrison noted that Norris-Newman played on his notoriety, being in the habit of introducing his spouse by telling gentlemen "you have met my wife before I think", implying that they had frequented her brothel. At the time of his marriage Norris-Newman was in financial difficulty, having fled his creditors in Shanghai. He asked Finch to request money from her father and when she refused began to subject her to physical abuse. Finch delivered their child ahead of term in September 1900, because of the abuse, and it was born with a deformity. Norris-Newman refused to pay for her care during postpartum confinement and she went to stay with her father for 5-6 months. Norris-Newman assaulted Finch again in February 1901 when Finch tried to stop him from dosing their crying and ill child with chlorodyne. In May 1902 Finch and the child left Japan for England on account of their health. Norris-Newman afterwards visited a brothel, telling them to bill his father-in-law. In 1902 Norris-Newman entered the employ of the Imperial Russian Navy, serving as an English language instructor at Port Arthur where he lived openly with a mistress. Norris-Newman's child died in May 1902 and he sent £50 to Finch and asked her to return to him. She travelled to Hong Kong but there received a letter from Norris-Newman telling her to go to her father at Yokohoma. Finch there gathered evidence of Norris-Newman's continuing infidelity, with which she was assisted by members of his family. She applied for a divorce in 1907 and a decree nisi was awarded in 1908 with costs awarded against Norris-Newman. Norris-Newman reported as a freelance correspondent from the Russian side of the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War and was witness to the Siege of Port Arthur. He founded the China Review in Hankow, the first Russian journal in the Far East. Morrison considered his reports of Japanese shooting down "Chinese on the streets in daylight" and of foreigners in China being under threat of death at Japanese hands as inflammatory and false. He noted they were being translated into Chinese and being printed in the Chinese press. He asked Colonel Alfred W. S. Wingate, in charge of intelligence in North China, to have Norris-Newman arrested by the British consul on charges of endeavouring to create