Bathroom as Prison

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 October 1915, Page 2

Bathroom as Prison

Mai-la I'ouluy, an elderly ■wonian, iivinjf at KaiiKsdeu road, Jialliani, v/aa siiniiiioiiod tit tiic Sontli-westorji Police Court by her husband who asked i«r discharge of an order under which lie was required to pay his vvil'o alimony lor tlesertlon. Mr Burton lor the husband, said they wore dealing with an extremely strong-minded and vindictive woman and with the weakest man that ever trod the earth. On one occasion the wife kept her husband a prisoner in the bathroom for several days, not by lock and key, but through the terror of her personality and temper. He vras fed through the window by his neighbours. The husband made his application tlie ground that lie had returned to his wife, sleeping on the sofa. Mrs Pooley.—"We did not live together. Mr Lister Drunrmond—But your husband returned home and the order" "or alimony will Ho discharged in 'comoquence.—Kondon Times,