MISERABLE MARRIAGES.

NZ Truth, Issue 130, 14 December 1907, Page 6

MISERABLE MARRIAGES.

THE LIVELINESS OiF MRS. 6 -.■• LOVE.. - '< t - ; Judge Button's Boisterous ■ fiumor. ■ " -.' , ■ *** ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • A Busy Time m Divorce. Getting a divorce is as easy . as .fallmg oft a log, pr.-I?he\ opera/tion seoms ; ,to be as simple when Toni Wilford is the- -advocate. William Oliver^ Dryden, felf jbhat his cup ,of . happiness, was full at Pietone, ', when ;his. girl ; ' Mary Louisa, said she would and later the organ played "The < Voice That -Breathed O'er Bderi" as the married lovers stalked; out; of the Anglican Church. There were; two robust, squalling pledges of afiection m the shape of kids, and evierythrng in* the backyard was positively splendid when : a . villain named Jacki;. iWilliamson, who touches, vp >, horses with, a, whip for a living, 'came ' on the scene. He disturbed .the, serenity, of the family and iboned '.Mary Louisa, who departed with her ' second . love m 1903 . .In the subseauent divorce prpceedings at Wellington" T. , G-. Wilde; - 17 Tiiorndon Quay,-ites|?ifie'd. thas.hie; had . advertised .i rooms to let and Williamson arid Mary L. c^me after them. In ,fact they res.id'ed m them as v Mr and 3Vlrs Williamson,^ and the neighbors didn J 't know any different otheriwise they would have made it hot for the woman.' " " v ' ' ' > A decree nisi .was granted, by 'Justice Button;; to be made absolute m three , ; months (Ithe decree, not the Judge) and -the outraged; grass-wid-ower was 1 given- the interim* custody of the youngs terjs with- cos tf agains t the co-respondenvfc. The life of Nat -Burgess m Wellington has' always, .been more:; or. less uhsatisf aotory , and marriage with him has been, gall and worm;wood and other things. . One day, some time, ago, an ignorant ppliceman mistoolc" him for a dfunkeh person and actually bundled him into a •cab &nd took him to ,tl)e station. In spite of the explicit manner m whioh he explained how he had a row with- a Chow over some bananas the Bfealo imposed a fine FOR BEING DRUNK . ;and it had xq be paid to escape the horrible alternative of retirement under Governmental control. Then) Nathaniel's wife. Adelia, went arid confessed to him -that she had one night transferred Nat'is privilege t.0 . , -a telegraph operator m Centenriial Park,? /Sydney, and ;there - was hell to pay after the 'damning ad=mission.. 'At anyrate, it .served as, ifcbe basis of ' divorce proceedings, and although the pair had lived er in seeming happiness' since their marriage at Carlton, Melbourne, " on June 1, 1900, and had sampled Adelaide, Mangaweka and . Mataroa as places of residence, a severance ,of the fatal knot was sought from Judge Button.. Burgess himself gave the .above' particulars, whioh .' weie dorroborated by, Robert Ernest Flaws, cleric tp Wilford. and Levi, who had interviewed the. woman. She said . she had m ade a. statement t_9 her husbantl to the efiect that on September 14, 1906, when on a trip to the other, side, she had' miscon- ' ducted herself!, m. Centennial Park, Sydney,' with 'Wv.-'R. Jones, light-ning-jerker, and that he was responsible for a subsequent abortive child. It appears .that^ Mrs B. is fond of ■■ al e, whatever mistake was made iby/ the police previously about lier husr band,-Tor she came 1 into the/solicitor's, /office several times disguised in' beer. The r unhappy parties- were relieved of ■: each other's society on ;the ■understanding that service of the order of the Supreme Court; slioulclM effected outside the colony. Burgees was given the custody ,of «tfe cH Ij d Evelyn Burgess. ..

The romance of Arthur Oswald Hoskins, a Karori laborer, was rudely dispelled three years ago, when the .missus cleared out with them!- -! evitable other fellow. Arthur Oswald married ' Rose Anna eleven years ago and the parties cohabited at Wellington and Karori , wheie four- ■ lusty youngsters sought a place m this miserable world. A Karori milkman, named Jack Nicholl was a particular friend of the family, aiid developed an unholy affection for the woman, who began to wonder what she had seen m her "own hubby to go and marry him. • Arthur Oswald certainly isn't much to look at, arid the circumstances told greatly m [favor of his hated rival, who used to. take the missus out while the puny husband remained at home to j mind the Jsids. Hubby got tired pi this sort of thing and remonstrated (with the mother of his 'children, who told him to go to, or something like that, and 'defiantly, expressed her intention . to continue thie deplorable ; conduct. Hoskins ; . tried, moral suasion 'once more upon. Rose, who was ' I SCANDALISING- THE NEIGHBORS 'by her conduct with Nicholl, but the misguided woman said she liked the milkman's society, .better than that of her own husband,: and- 'She was going to' clear out with- thc r usurper.: The guilty pair made;, tracks ■ for Palmerstori. North", the , town of ,- the huge' square which is getting into; the habit of -furnishing.m aterial for the divorce court., and' .they were seen there by Charles Samuel Eagle, ■brother of Rose, on October, 2, 1905. The elopers were living • together at- the Phoenix Hotel . as jtnah and wife. First of all/ she. denied that' she was a: relative of the; complaining person, then she admitted her adultery : with Nicholl/ 'and said Hoskins could do his worst.' Decree nY si granted, •with costs on - the lowestscale ag-airist' the co-respondent'; "Love-Love" was the title of one set of divorce papers which caused much pleasantry between Judge and counsel. Theophrjus George Love married his sweetheart/ Mary Flanagan m St. Pat's Cathedral;; Auckland, m 1869, but the Love 1 experiment was not too' successful, and when Mary, met a saafaring man named Hunt m 1874 she disappeared with him and hadn't fbeen seen since by her. long-suf-fering husband. What -, induced him to apply for . a divorce ■ after thirtythree years of grass-widowcrhood wasn't explained m CoitU^ but there is a ' certain pictujL'esqueness aboi.it Love's grey-, locks ■, which might appeal to another woman. . Love and his first love lived togetlier for two years after marriage without being disturbed with children,' whiph may have been ."the cause of Mary's dissatisfaction. "Theophilus"-; : means "the gift of God,", top— or is ■ it "Theodore?" . • - Judge Button: I.t's a case ...of., a woman going away . from : her own true Love. ■' Love grinned his appreciation -and informed rhe Court through Mr Wilford that he had been toiling foi: the Taupo Timber Co. at the' Hutt and there %as evidence to. prove that he had lived a -lonely, loveless life m the locality. Decree nisi granted, to become- absolute at '•• the; expiration of three months. . ' : ; '.-,'■ "No- further order,- - I ,? suppose ; ?" queried his "Honor,- facetiously, arid the reference to children which Love didn't succeed m having born to get the interim custody of tickled the Court considerably; - ; Charles Howat refused to do, Ills husband's duty some time ago, -and Sophia, his. legal partner, was compelled,to sue for the' restitution, of conjugal rights m August last year. Charles, still refrained from- cohabiting, and the aggrieved woman sought the .assistance, of .Mr Wilford to secure a divorce. .-.Howatls. deplorable inability ,to appreciate the advantages of the marriage tie ; was. explained to Judge Button, who took advantage of the open door to divorce that is shortly to be closed .and granted a decree nisi. • .