A STRANGE CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2255, 29 July 1908, Page 2

A STRANGE CASE.

A HUSBAND ACCUSED OF AVARICE. WIFE SUES FOR MAINTENANCE. [Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 28. A rather peculiar ease was the last one oil the list at the Police Court this afternoon, before Mr. C. Lk Kettle, S.M., when the wife of William Wells, aged 70. sued liiiii for maintenance. She said her husband did not drink, and that his particular vice was avarice. Every Saturday night he went home and secreted £lO, and now he had the enormous sum of £115,000 stowed away. She asserted that she had seen him count the whole . £115,000, which was in notes. This tlie old man indignantly denied. He said lie had no shares, bank account, buildings, nor real estate. Tho only tangible possession ho had was rheumatism. Wells was represented by a Maori lady, who explained to the Magistrate that he was quilte destitute. She had endeavored to obtain an old age pension for him, but through some irregularity in the application had not Succeeded. His Worship suggested that failing occult aid. in finding tlie £115,000, noth parties should apply for charitable aid. He adjourned the case for a month.