MR WATSON’S MISTAKE.
Neither as a man nor a husband, no? an ex-member of a Matrimonial Club is there anything admirable in the behavior of Mr Watson, clerk to a firm of shipbrokera m Liverpool, Mr Watson was a member of a club which had been founded for the purpose of securing for the members, wives with good fortunes] and, having found a lady whom he believed to possess the qualifications which he thought necessary, he married her. Her property, however, proved not what Mr Watson had supposed j her mother here the same name as the brjde, and the husband had probably been misled in his inquiries Mrs Watson had L4QO, a year settled 011 and as Mr Watson did not consider this an equivalent for his hand and heajt, he commenced a system of treatment which his wife rightly characterised as violent. He took the carvingknife to her, tore skin from her arm, made hex 1 a target for the decanters, and bit her more than a well-conducted husband should bite. In fact he appears to have been fond of biting, for it is recorded in the annals of the Divorce Court that on one occasion he bit a piece out of a glass] though why he did is npt plear, unless he wished fo show the strength of his jaws, as a delicate hint of what she might expect when his temper became ruffled by drink and the reflection that L4OQ, was a very paltry sum a complaint which he frequently addressed to the lady who had bestowed that amount upon him. If Mr Watson will reflect, he will doubtless see that it was not only wrong, but also illogical in the highest degree to beat his wife because he himself had made a mistake; and it is satisfactory to find that Sir James Hannon granted a decree of judicial separation, Members of the lowest classes of society are generally credited with an undue indulgence in the practice of wife-beating; but Mr Watson probably called himself a gentleman, and it is therefore the more to be regretted that he did not behave as such. ‘ Standard,”
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Evening Star, Issue 3600, 5 September 1874, Page 3
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358MR WATSON’S MISTAKE. Evening Star, Issue 3600, 5 September 1874, Page 3
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