A DIVORCE DISPENSARY

NZ Truth, Issue 1174, 31 May 1928, Page 7

A DIVORCE DISPENSARY

Judicial Chemist's Prescriptions . (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative;)

v : "Judge Adams had a busy morning m the Christchurch Divorce Court last week, phen he listened to many tales of woe and severed the, nuptial knots that bound the human misfits seeking the aid of his legal scissors.

FOUR months of niarried life were quite long enough -for Lilly -Louisa Taigel, who married George Henry Taigel, a Christchurch pastrycook, m 1924. They lived at home with Taigel's. parents. For the first week or so, Lilly seemed happy and contented, but it was very short-lived contentment. She lived with her husband for four months and then cleared but, after leaving behind a rough note telling George that- he was not to worry, but she had not the right sort of love for him — and the parting was hurting her, more than it would him. George was granted his decree nisi. Carelessness m leaving incriminating letters about the house has dispossessed Beatrice Marion Orchard of a husband, for Albert Edward Orchard, finding them m the house one day, taxed his wife and obtained a confession from her '•' that she had "been /carrying on" with an insurance salesman by the name of Cyrjl Pauh : >■'. .- A child was born on 'May 7 of this year concerning which Lawyer Thomas, who appeared for Orchard, expressed some doubt. "I don't wish to proceed against the co-respondent on the question of costs, as he Is now m Australia and it would be useless," said counsel. . "On the question of custody, we cannot deny the paternity of the child born a^week or so back, although there .may be grave doubts about it, We only ask for the custody of the other child." And Orchard received not ' only his decree, but also the custody asked for. The heart's desire of May Helena Anno Marquet, who married Francis Augustus Marquet m 1916, was to present her husband with a child he could love and cherish. Francis knew of her wish, and, being a very obliging fellow, he sought to provide his wife with a baby readymade. Great was her surprise when he walked m one day with a fine, bouncing kid, with the jovial announcement: "Here you are; here's a child for you." Later he left her— and Francis left no word as to his destination.' ; May took maintenance proceedings against him and later she made the discovery that he -had gone away with a single woYnan named Hannah . Sykes ; she; also discovered that Hannah was

the mother of the baby Francis' had. V brought home to his wife. When his whereabouts were located, Marquet confessed that he had gone off with Hannah.' ' ' May. lost no time m making, tracks V; for the, divorce court. \ Judge Adams obliged by severing the connubial knot. . When ftlyrtle Lilly Brougham ' married Arthur Frederick Brough-' am m 1919, she had no idea ; that - : - : she would be used as a target for i all sorts of l missiles .when her ->- husband was "m his cups." . .: But she was not long. in waking .up / to the fact that this was to be her lot. Brougham : had a chronic thirst. When drunk he would come home and ' make a regular pest of himself. Cups .' were heaved at the unoffending head : of his wife; as a change, he would ;' ;,'• bang her head against the- doorpost; and . .; strike her about the head with his fists. There was one child of the marriage and even the infant was. not immune from the violent attentions of its father. ' On one occasion, Myrtle told the judge, ''he picked up the child and threw it down on the bed^" She left him— and the end of the story was written by his honor.^wno handed* out a decree nisi to the lonssuffering wife. The unusual spectacle of a mother-in-law going into the witness-box m the Divorce Court and speaking In favor of her daughter's husband was provided by Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Hood, when giving evidence m support of the . petition brought by Frederick William Owens against his wife, who left him over ten years ago. * Mrs. Owens simply walked out of her parent's house, where she and her husband lived after their marriage, leaving no word of ex- ; .*;. planation for her sudden departure. Mrs. : Hood told the judge -.-that the ; trouble between the couple>coulil not be laid at her son-in-law's , door. He had been very good to his wife and she had no reason (whatever for leaving him. ;■'■■••• " Lawyer Sargent suggested that the .; real reason for Mrs.' Owen's departure from home was her desire to get away from parental : ; c >%;; V... She had neve*r Returned to her husband, at any rate, arid the husband received hia decree nisL ': :