HE HUNG ROUND.

NZ Truth, Issue 140, 22 February 1908, Page 6

HE HUNG ROUND.

Went Where He Wasn't Wanted.

The spite of a woman ': Agues Robertson sued her husband John at the Christchurch, z M-agist rate's. Court lor v sum of' ■' money, , also; a' * Reparation order on the ground of cruelty. The evidence of the petitioner $,a*n\ed that he was- 'guilty of iripst obnf->.ious language and that ! she -had. been ?«parated front him for sometime, and that the arrears hadn't been paid up. Mr Hunt appeared for- the. complainant, and askcid the lady how bad her husband been treating her ? Well, I "have been separated during the last tWo years, and since then lie has always been a nuisance to me. Mr Bishop : When d|d you t have a separation?— l-t is : two years, ago, but it was, a private one. It appears that the defendant was. to give 22s 6d a week towards - the support of bis .family, .but. .one had come of age. The defendant, it was alleged, •had been hanging about the house of his' 'wife, and { kicking . up rows. . ■■• Mr Hunt :; Did he insult you ?— Yes on the racecourse. He put his fingers .to his nose at me. - Anything else ?-^Yes, he has pointed at 3 me on the'street. And he has come to mv house and , • ' STRUCK AT MY SON over the gate m front of a crowd. In answer to Lawyer Donnelly the complainant admitted that, -her husband, when lie left her, left her the whole 'caboose, furniture and everything. It was. worth a couple of hundred quid, anyhow. And ,she hatd the : house on Perry Road, but the man .came along and kicked up a hell of a disturbance and things were only middHng. The effect of th.at was ifchat 'he turned out the people. A son of the accused went into the box and said that his 'bald-headed old father kicked up a 'row on sseverr r al occasions, and that he had called his mother a bitch and other, dirty names, too numerous to mention.; "I kicked him out of the house one night," said the son, "and next night he struck me over the fence.. ' He is always hanging round." Jessie Robertson, a daughter 6? flvhe accused, also gave evidence. She said that -her father was an engineer, and -no class. He always hung about the gate, and called the mother a bitch, and said they were a rotten family. He used to intimate frequently that they were no class. Counsel Donnelly : Aren't you a music teacher ?— Yes. I teach a pupil ler^two. And hasn't lie given you all th> education you possess ?— Yes, that is so. Don't you think YOUR MOTHER IS TO BliAME'?— &>. ■ , •Not for the present" little -trouble ? —No. . . .' , .. Mr Bishop : Oh, well. I can't make an order under the Married Woman's Summary Separation Act on the evidence. I must dismiss the information. ' • •. " ''-■ ■ ' '