A LONELY MAN

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 8

A LONELY MAN

Even His Housekeeper Dropped Him (From "N;Z. Truth's" Wellington Rep.) The matrimonial and domestic .difficulties of Benjamin Witherington Dalley are somewhat involved. , What might have been the Initial causes of his separation from his wife are best known to himself, but at all events she obtained an order against him, which, at the present time— and after he has made 80V-, ... eral appearances In court— Stands : at 7/6 a week. |"\ALiDEY kept and maintained the three children of the , marriage, but being unable to look after them himself, he engaged a housekeeper. A carrier by occupation, Dalley, for the paßt two years has been* following any class of employment that came his way. Things would not have been so Dad for him had he not been so indiscreet as to carry on a liaison with his housekeeper. As a result of this Illicit union, an. Illegitimate child -was born — and Dalley had "another mouth to feed." . Last week he was haled before the Wellington Maintenance Court for failing to comply with the order in his wife's favor. Maintenance Officer Manning wanted to know why he had failed to keep up his payments. Dalley, in the witneßS-box, said he had six 'mouths io feed — that was counting the housekeeper and the little unwanted. ' ' ■ His housekeeper and her child, had left; he was now baching. To Maintenance Officer Manning, Dalley admitted that he had assisted the mother of his illegitimate child. Magistrate Salmon had a few words to say to the much-worried defendant. "Your domestic arrangements have been irregular from the very beginning," he observed. Dalley was sentenced to -fourteen days' imnrisonmer £, the "warrant to" b© suspended so loru* aS he paid 8/J4 tV week, being 1/- off! the arreara.