EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1568, 26 September 1905, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

A TALE OF DEPRAVITY.

Per Press Association. Auckland, last night. Evidence of rather an extraordinary oharaeter was' given at the Polioe Court to-day, in a oase in whioh a bookmaker a olerk named Theodore Emits Geislor was charged at the instance of the Charitable Aid Board with child desertion. The wife of defendant, who had been liviDg apart from her husband for some considerable time, admitted to Mr Kettle,,B.M., that she had disclosed the name of a certain person as being the father of her child, so as to give her husband a weopon with which to take proceedings for divorce. If he was successful with the divoroe proceedings, she was then ta marry a man named Charles Burtenshaw. This man BurtenBhaw also gave evidence, in whioh he admitted that he had arranged for Mrs Geisier to meet her husband in order, that she might make a oonfession on which a divorce might be obtained. If a divoroo had been obtained, he would have adopted tho child and married Mrs Geisier. Mrs Geislar handed to tho Magistrate a piece of paper, on which was written the name of the father of tho child, She had not, she said, seen this man for a long time. Geisier was committed for t ini, and wai admitted to bail- Ho bai been brought on extradition from Sydney.