DRUNKEN WIFE
(Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, 3rd September. Married -in 1888, Joseph Buckley found that soon after the ceremony his wife, Catherine Alladina Buckley, was addicted to drink. In the Divorce Court this morning it was stated that she drank so much that she became so violent on one occasion that she smashed the furniture and cut up the bedding. About five years ago she split the panels of the bedroom door with an axe. Petitioner expressed himself as having been afraid of her. Iv 1035 she began to stay out all night, and had often been found in the morning in a drunken state. Three arrests and a period in a home did not improvo her. . Counsel withdrew the defence, and said that the woman had started to drink for her health, but four years back was the limit to which the facts were admitted.- He added that the six children, all iv good positions, did not desire to give evidence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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