"YOU LIAR!"

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1814, 29 July 1913, Page 3

"YOU LIAR!"

WIFE'S OPINION OF HUSBAND. STATED IN THE COURT. Tho troubles of a separated couple were recounted in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon in unusual terms. The case was one in which a wife charged her husband with having molested her in Cuba Street. ilr. P. W. Jackson, counsel for the woman, said that the husband must be prevented from following his wife and waylaying 'her in the public street. He added that on a previous occasion action had to be taken against the husband, who used to hang round the house where his wife stayed, on the pretext that he wished to see tlie children. Now, 'however, he had not that excuse, as the wife had said that he could have the children if he would look after them properly, aud had given them to him. The wife then went into the witnessbox, and said that while she was in Cuba Street on July 12 her husband had accosted her. Mr. Jackson: What did he say? Tho wife: He wanted to know if I had seen the children . . . and he kept mo from ten to five to twenty minutes past live, asking me. He said that he had sent them down to see me, but that is not true. She added that she was very sorry that she had left the children with him. Mr. P. J. O'Regan (counsel for the husband): Didn't you say that you would hand the children over to him because you wanted to get away to Auckland ? The wife: I said that I would go to Auckland, because my life hero was a misery to me. How did he address you?—"As Miss Connie something." Miss Connie Walsh?—"Yes; that was the name." You have been going under that namo for two years?—"No; that is a lie. Nobody knows me by anything but J.lrs. ——. They aro just the lies he is making up." Constablo O'Connor deposed that on July 12, in Cuba Street, the woman had asked him to mako her husband go away. The husband had gone away immediately. Mr. O'Regan remarked that under tho separation, order tho wife was given tho custody of the children, but she had given them up, and had been friendly with her husband, so had waived the order. The husband, therefore, was justified in assuming that she -would not be annoyed if lie talked to her. Mr. Jackson: That is not a waver. . Mr. O'Regan: No; but next door to it. In evidence, the husband stated that ho worked as a wharf labourer. On July 4, while he was coal-lumping at the wharves, someone rushed down, and said: "You had better go up to the house; there is something wrong there." He went to his house, aud found his wife and tho children there. His wife said she was going to leave the children with him, and go to Auckland. She left tho children at the house, and went away, the children crying after her. Before she went he gave her some money, aud as she proceeded up the road she called out: "I will walk with who'l like, go with who I like, and do as I like." The wife: Liar. The husband: She said she would clear out, and leave the children on the doorstep." * ... The wife (bitterly): You liar. The husband: 1' keep the children with me, and get someone to come and look alter them. The wife: The children are not with you. By this time the woman was m tears. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.: Defendant has been before the Court previously on the same charge. He will be fined £3, with solicitor's fees .61 Is., and Court costs 95., in default seven days' imprisonment;.