An Elopement Case

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 99, 30 January 1886, Page 3

An Elopement Case

. ♦" The Elopement of a carpenter's wife with a bricklayer, which was briefly referred to in a recent issue, appears to be a very singular case. It seems that the false and frail one is the wife of a ship carpenter, residing in Newton. She is 36 years of age, and her lover but 25, The husband went home on Saturday.afternoon last, after a hard week's labour, and then discovered to his discomfiture that his faithless spouse had decamped and left him not only with four children, the youngest being 4 years of age, but almost helplessly encumbered with debt. The children told him that their mother had gone away, they did not know where, but she had bid them " Good by." Further inquiry showed that the wife had taken with her all her clothes, also her husbands earnings for the previous fortnight, about £80 which had been left her by her mother two months ago, and money that her husband had placed in her hands to bank and provide for the family. support during the last two years; Now the unfortunate man has coming in daily accounts for rent and other things which he supposed were paid and worst of all a bill which the wife had incurred in order to fit out her lover with mew dsthing for the journey they had evidently planned for some considerable time the interesting couple are supposed to have left for Sydney by the mail steamer on Sunday morning last. — Auckland Star.