HUSBAND'S CONFESSION

NZ Truth, Issue 1147, 24 November 1927, Page 5

HUSBAND'S CONFESSION

Dairy Farmer's Amazing Intrigue

With Servant Girl

FERVENT PASSAGES READ IN COURT

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Masterton Representative.)

When a well-known dairy farmer, Cecil Beaumont Cox, of Woodville, became desperately enamored of his 19-year-old servant girl while his wife was under sore stress m a nursing home, he surely broke with any possible prior claims to marital fidelity.

BUT even further did this rural Don Juan go, when he had the audacity blandly to inform/. his wife that 1 misconduct had taken place between | the single girl and himself, with the result that she was then m a certain condition. When his own wife's child had just died, .this was a brutal, despicable announcement from he who called himself a husband. Thus was Cox's conduct outlined when his wife instituted an undefended case m the Masterton Magistrate's Court last week. She was successful m obtaining an order for separation and maintenance. Passionate letters from the farmer to the servant-girl — m terms, it was remarked, such as "to make a cat laugh" — and replies from the girl written m appropriate scarlet, were features of the proceedi ings. ' Lawyer R. K. Burridge, who appeared on behalf of the wife, Agnes Cox,

said the parties had been married seven years. In June last the wife entered a nursing home and engaged a nineteen-year-old girl to keep house for her husband during her absence. When she returned from the nursing home, where she had to remain a fortnight longer than anticipated, she found that her husband had become infatuated with the servant girl. Cox informed his wife that the girf was m trouble, that he was going to kefep her at the house and that his wife would have to go out and work. Cox proceeded to make condij tions at home so unpleasant for his wife that she was compelled to leave, her husband 'promising to pay £1 per week towards her I maintenance. Upon her going to Masterton, Mrs. Cox was advised by her brother to return home. This she decided to do, but on returning the following Sunday morning she discovered her husband and the girl together. A reconciliation took place, however, and the wife gave the girl a week's wages and told 'her to go.

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them, I'm sure." Mrs. Cox proved, to. be a plain, quiet woman With a blue feather m her hat. She said she married Cox on September 2i. 1920. Their . married life proceeded satisfactorily until June last. After the attempt at reconciliation between herself and her husband, the latter had thrown up his permanent employment on the railway, drawn his superannuation and leased a small farm. I Now he could not carry on and had engaged a house 'at Dannevirke to take up residence with the former servant girl. When his wife left him he had been threatening suicide and murder. After'hearing the evidence, Magistrate S. L,. P. Free granted -the wife an order for separation and maintenance and directed the husband to pay 30/- weekly and. a sum of £ 9 for ar- [ rears. ..'■.. I

Correspondence ensued between Cox and the girl, and this, said counsel, was of such a nature as to "make a cat laugh." The language was ridiculous. He produced the following letter written by Cox to the girl: "To my dearest love: "Just to say how miserable and disappointed and worried I am, my darling, m not receiving word from you this week. "Oh, my dearest loved one, do write to me and let me know where you are, my darling so loved. "I nearly cried when I read your last letter to me, dearest, saying that before I got your last letter you may be away down m Featherston. "Oh, my darling one, do write to your own loved one so far away ■ • "I was to-day on the round" (the letter continues, "and I went to where you and I sat that day down m the back paddock. "As I sat there thinking of you, my dearest one, I could not help it, I fairly cried with grief. "My loved darling, I am nearly driven MAD. I stuck out for my own and upheld the girl who I really love. "I have succeeded m beating Mr. — " (the writer's brother-in 7 law) "and his smart lawyer. I have nine cows now and am doing fine. My love, you are the only one I love. "Yours for ever with, all my heart, "Cecil." The letter concludes with the girl's :&■ nickname — "Tom" — written m m very large capitals with crosses. Wk - In a letter to Cox, the girl 111 l writes with a bright scarlet pen|||i "My Dearest One: I don't 111 know if I should write to you or ill if it is safe, but I must hear from ||f you. Oh, my dear, I thought I m should have died when you sent is me away. How I am going to Is live without you, I. don't know, S but I suppose I Just have to. I f asked Mrs. Cox hot to make It ; too hard for you." j After dealing with various sub-r I jects, the girl holds Cox to his I promise to look after her If any--1 thing should happen and Insists I upon the return of her letters. 1 She signs herself: "I am for ever

id letter the girl

Dearest One,— ■ "I got your letrs on Wednesay, Gee, wasn't pleased;, it was ke a ray of suriine to me. I am rry that you are aving such a me of it. What their game? "Your brother--law thought he as clever when c would not let ou know where I as, but he does ot gain anything, y it. He would nd the bird one." After making reference to her condition, the girl continues: ''I want you to make out a reference for me, making it so that Mrs. — ~ (her employer) will think that I have been working for you for six months, so that she will keep me on . . . Tou can give yourself 1000 kisses from me and! our boy. —Tom." - • 3, I have wrote 5 what I've put m