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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2623, 14 July 1871, Page 3

A case of glaring immorality was brought to light during the'hearing of a maintenance case, investigated by the Daylesford Bench. A married woman sued a married man for the maintenance i f four out of six illegimate children by him. The husband of co i - plainant it appears was (says the Mvrcunj) imprisoned fourteen or fifteen years ago, for assaulting with an axe a man who had been too familiar with her, but was soon afterwards liberated. Subsequenty she lived with defendant for seven or eight years, during which time the children were born ; but for the last three years he had ceased to cohabit with her. A witness swore that since she resided with defendant she had also lived with her husband. The woman admitted that she knew the defendant was married when she went to live with him, but denied that she had cohabited with her husband for thirteen or fourteen years. The Bench ruled that neither husband nor wife could prove non access, and dismissed the summons without prejudice.