LOUISA HITCH AND FRIEND

NZ Truth, Issue 1142, 20 October 1927, Page 3

LOUISA HITCH AND FRIEND

11 (From "N.Z. Truth's'' Special Auckland Representative.) || || '"THIS is your wife — and until you divorce her you must keep her!" || |1 * was Magistrate Hunt's final remark to John Richard Hitch in the H ll Auckland Maintenance Court last week after hearing the evidence of |f §1 the wife, Louisa Winnie Hitch. H 11 The case was adjourned over the week-end and on Monday it was if || announced that both parties had agreed to a separation order being 1§ II granted. . || H The case was fully reported in r 'N.Z. Truth" last week. It appear- |§ II ed that in 1925 the young wife accepted a position as lady-companion || li to a Mrs. Elliott Davies, who was travelling to England. If II At Colombo, however, Louisa left the boat. Later, according to if II her own story, she visited Bombay on. account of certain letters she || |1 had received concerning her husband's conduct. §| ll The wife alleged that during a visit which John Richard paid to || || Colombo he had assaulted her. In Auckland he had called at the house || II in which she was living with her mother and threatened tb put the II || bailiffs in. H li "It is ridiculous for the husband to accuse his wife of living with || II a colored man and then ask her to come back to his arms!" was the ii |l magistrate's comment at one stage of the proceedings, when snap- §1 l| shots were handed to his worship in which Louisa figured with a §§ 11 colored acquaintance. (Picture on this page.) || ' £ rmm 7l|illl)iillilllllllilllli-»nillln-lilllllllllllilliilllllililllllllllilllilliiiilliiiliMii»uiiiini(iiliinillir)r -iriirirtiiimTilr-Tnrgtiiiiniiililll-iii--imiiiinnrinnnn«mirniciltininiiiiiiriiliiiiiliniiiir >n