“GENTLE CONFIDING WIFE.”
*• God Help the Man.”
Bridget Baxter applied at tlic Christchurch Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for a maintenance order against her husband, Matthew Baxter. She confessed that he had been paying 30s a week, but that was not enough for herself and six children. All the'money she had earned. True, she had bought herself a bicycle for £2l, and another for her daughter, and a third for her son, and she had
70 sovereigns in a box which her husband knew nothing about. “ That was no reason why I should spend it on him,” was her contention. As a matter of fact, she turned him out of bed, but denied tire imputation that she put him into another wish three of the boys. It was noi true that she put all the tea in her pocket so that she could not have any, but if she did she bought is with her own money. The house was rent free, and she had bought a £SO piano. “Then tho woman is not destitute, said the Magistrate,” and if the left her I don’t wonder at it, for God help any man that had to live with her. The ease is absolutely preposterous, It is only necessary to look at this woman’s demeanour in the witness-box. She’d kill a mao, in a month, I should think.” No order was made.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 May 1901, Page 4
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