A CRIMINAL HUSBAND

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 42, 12 November 1921, Page 11

A CRIMINAL HUSBAND

MARRIED WHILE ON PROBATION. "He was out on probation when 1 married him, and I didn’t 1 ! know it," said a petitioner in the Divorce Court yesterday, before Mr, Justice Sim. The case was one in which Julia Winifred Turner asked for dissolution of'her marriage with Lincoln Evans Turner, on tho ground of desertion. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for the petitioner, who said tho parties were married l in 1911. They lived in Auckland and in the Waikato after tho marriage. There was one child. In December, 1915, tho petitioner’s husband desorted her, and was later arrested for cattle stealing. Ho had only once provided a home for tho petitioner. In 1916 he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, and since had been declared an habitual criminal, "He has been declared an habitual criminal three times," said Mr. Jackson. "On one occasion, when he was released, his wife got him a position at a freezing works, but ho did not go to it. He has not paid one penny towards her maintenance." “He only maintained me for a year and eight months in eleven years of marriage,” said the petitioner, who added that Turner had several aliases. When she married him she only knew him as "Snowy” Turner. Detective-Sergeant Andrews, of Wellington, said he had known Mrs. Turner for three years. She had lived apart from her husband and had maintained herself. "Turner is a bad lot,” said the officer. A decree nisi was granted. The respondent was ordered to pay costs.