FOOLISH YOUTH’S PLIGHT.
CAN’T SUPPORT HIS WIFE* ALARMED FOR SPITE. (Pur Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Alarch 31. A peculiar disclosure was made at the City Police Court tin’s morning. Sarah Elizabeth AlcCauglian, about fifty years of age, sued her husband, Thomas Hector AlcCauglian,"a young fellow of twenty-one, for maintenance of herself and her two children by her former marriage. The parties were married in October last, and had lived together for three days only. Air. Stewart explained that ,Ib.s client, AlcCauglian, had married in a fit of spite, as the son of plaintiff had married his mother and was about tho same age as AlcCauglian himself. The young fellow was receiving 15s per week, and was suffering from several ailments. The Alagistrate said that .it was one of the strangest cases that hacT ever been before the Court. . He did not think it was a case for ail order. ■ Tho best thing the woman could do was to take her husband home and look after him.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2154, 1 April 1908, Page 2
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165FOOLISH YOUTH’S PLIGHT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2154, 1 April 1908, Page 2
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