HAPPY MARRIAGE UPSET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2753, 3 July 1924, Page 1

HAPPY MARRIAGE UPSET.

THE “STOLEN WIFE.” ‘‘This twin Ims been robbed.” said Mr Justice Hill in the London Divnrce Court In tel v when granting ;i ue-creo nisi wiih costs and £7. r )0 damages In MV Thomas Austin, a captnin in flip Reserve of Odiccrs, of Acrisc, near Folksfone. Mr Austin .-illeged his wife's misconduct with F. (I. Eraser. late a staff sergeant in (lie Canadian Army, find now the manager of a brewery at Edmonton, Canada. He said fit the time of the marriage he was 2S and his wife J!>. The marriage was exceedingly happy, lint in 1919 he found a post-card from a man and a photograph of the cori'spomleut. Petitioner said that he went on foreign service and in August 1921. found that his wife had gone to Catmda, taking £IOO of his money and about £.IOO worth of' furniture. He tried for two years and a half and went it) enormous expense, to get his wife back as he was very fond of her, but she refused to return. Tie retired from the Army as lie did not want: disgrace to come on his name .after 28 years’ service. Mr Bucknill, for the husband, said the wife had been “stolen” hv Fraser.