MARRIED FOR A BET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1017, 31 October 1912, Page 4

MARRIED FOR A BET.

SEQUEL IN THE DIVORCE COURT.

Maurice C. Fitzraaurice, possessor of estates iu Ireland, England and Canada, a practising attorney and member of the legal profession in Nevada, and at one time a protessor of Greek in Cambridge University, England, was the up'” 1 t ,l c witness stand ou his own ueUaif in the Divorce Court at Reno, in an effort to secure au absolute decree from Mary L. Eilztnaurice. He said his wife married him for a bet.

Coming home one evening three days after the return from the honeymoon, Eitzmaurice said he found his wife with a man. She immediately began to sing, “Tra-ra-ya-ra-boom-de-aye,” because she knew he disliked the song. Then she kissed the man.

“Did you haul off and strike him ?” asked Judge Morau. “Why, no. I didn’t strike him,” replied Fitzmaurice, “because he was an effeminate sort of a man, always playing silly jokes.” Finally his wife took the old china and silver and pawned it, and this was the final straw, add then she departed with a man who looked like Captain Rollison, of the Scotch militia. This completed his anguish, and he came to Reno for a divorce. The case was taken under submission.