UNUSUAL DIVORCE
•Press Aisooiation.)
Husband Forced Wife To Leave
(By fclegraph—
AUCKLAND, Last Nighl. "I was married iu Augusfc, 1910, in response to the dying wish oi' my first husband,'' said Jean Mitchell Eea in app lying in the Supreme Court for dissolution of her marriage with Tiioinas William Kea. Petitioner said that there was oue son of the iirst marriage, now aged 3o but no children of the second marriage! The parties lived at Katikati and Waihi. Petitioner said that her married life with her second husband had beeu very unhappy. He was a heavy drinker and refused to work on the farm. He had several times locked her out of ths houf.e, and on another occasion had thrcatened to kill her, His Honour Mr Justice Smith: What did he say? Petitioner: He told me I would not see the light of another day. He caught me by the throat. On another occasion he threatened to kill me. Petitioner. said that he left for Australia and had since supported her son. She had- not seen her husband for ten years. "This is a caso in which tlio husband forced the wife from the home, and the desertkm therefore is on the part of the husband," said his Honour. A decres. niei was grantsd,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370603.2.119
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 12
Word Count
214UNUSUAL DIVORCE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 12
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in