A CURIOUS CASE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1089, 13 April 1883, Page 3

A CURIOUS CASE.

An old man named James Robert Bond, who emigrated to Australia thirty-five years ago, but 1861 eloped with a widow named Merrough, leaving bis wife and three children behind him, provoked a very unpleasant expose of his personal delinquencies by bringing an action at the last Exeter Assizes to recover damages from his son John Bund for an alleged assault. Some years after the desertion, his wife and children became entitled to some property, and returned to England, where the wife obtained a judicial seperation, but afterwards became a lunatic. The children endeavored to persuade their father to abandon, his connection with the woman with whom he had eloped, but he refused to do so. Two years ago he inherited some money, and the whole family resided together for some time at Starcross in a cottage the father had purchased. He, however, soon tried to tun his wile and daughters nut of doors, and when they would not go he established his mistress in the cottage, and instructed the servant to regard her as the head of the household. In consequence of this treatment his wife, who had in a great measure recoved, again became insane. Her son had a stormy interview with his father, hut was assaulted with a fire shovel. A neighbor came to his assistance, and while he held the father, the son took his mistress by the neck and ran her into the street, telling her that he would no longer allow his mother to be insulted by her presence. The villagers then assembled, and drummed the disreputable pair out of the village. The action resulted in the son’s favor.