THE MEN WENT FISHING

NZ Truth, Issue 1186, 23 August 1928, Page 4

THE MEN WENT FISHING

And Found How Maty Was Partial Jo Braun Occasionally (From. "N.Z.. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) An argumentative' person might insist' that had it not been, for the fish that swim m the s.ea, Leslie* Braun, a Waiuku farmer, would still : haOe been enjoying the forbidden pleasures of an illicit relationship with Mary Cendo Yelcich, a Dalmatian.

STILL, if Marco Dugarizich and his mate had" not thought of fishing,, it is unlikely that v . they would have been straining' theirTJeyesight, peeping through a frorit bedmom.^vindo^v'.at'th.e doings of Leslie and -Mary: on: the; night of January 28 of this year. So. much for the chap called Circumstance. George, a well :set.up, serious featured Dalmatian,- married his Mary at, Waiukuon April 4, 1923... Her name,', was Flanagan before George changed* it to Yelcich, and her home town was Glasgow. During the . years of their residence at Waiuku, the family was increased by the advent of two little Scots-Dalmatians, Pera aged 4 and Colleen aged 3. George's occupation as a laborer necessitated his absence from the dovecot at Waiuku, and he only returned to his family each week-end from Raglan. ,' > Trouble m the shape of Leslie Braun; a young farmer of TWaiuku,. was gradually looming up m the Yelcich household, until it culminated m the discovery made.by two of George's friends when they peered through a window on which the blind was not fully drawn down. ■ When his friends made their disclosures to him George decided it was time to get a divorce. He also came to the conclusion that his wife had been valuable to him, therefore he was entitled to ask a jury to award him" £500 damages for the alienation of affections and ;the breaking up of his home. .-'.,-■ Lawyer Reed guided George through the legal seas .to, the calm water of matrimonial' freedom beyond. Neither Mary nor her lover Leslie Braun, put m an appearance •to defend the action^ • Petitioner told, his honor, Judge Reed, that his wife had been a good wife to him and had looked after her home and

One man left another \yith. whom he had been standing and entered George's home. The elect, icj lights were switched on knd after a' few seconds interval the. man came but and joined his companion. ' ■ - ' - The two Dalmatians noticed that there was another man near the cemetery gates, a little' distance away, and he, appeared to be interested m the other men m front of YelClch's house. The man who had previously entered'the house did so again,, and his companion joined the man at the cemetery gates. This pair waited for thirty minutes for. their friend, and when he did not appear they walked off towards Waiuku. ■ •■■ • '» Meanwhile Marco and'his pal remained interested spectators of these queer manoeuvres.'. With the fleparture of the two men outside the house, Marco decided he had • better investigate, as the gentleman who had entered seemed to him to /be too small m stature for his friend George Yelcich. Approaching the house, the pair found the blind on the front bedroom window was not pulled completely down. Marco promptly applied his optics to the window and then had good reason, to congratulate himself on his earlier caution. "I saw Mrs. Yelcich. and Leslie Braun oh the bed," he told, the judge. The lady was m her night attire, ac-. -cording to Marco, and her- amorous swain had discarded most of his clothing. . •-,'.". ■:' , "They were drinking beer," continued witness. "I could not say whether it was beer, stout— .t was something out of a bottle," he finished. Later he saw misconduct take place. Marco spoke of having stayed at the Yelcich home and very often when he returned from a fishing expedition he would find the children crying for their mother who was not m the house.

her children before Leslie Braun entered her life. Certainly he had warned her several times about Braun.

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- sne wouia come home sometimes at 2 and 3 o'clock m the morning. Marco's mate corroborated the

Some time prior I to her misconduct Avith Braun on January 27 and January 28, he had noticed a coldness on his wife's part when he. returned from Raglan at the weekends. "She did not, even like to see me come home," he added. At the beginning of February, Mary packed up and went to her sister at Manurewa, taking the children with her. Since that' date he had sent money to support the children. The co-respondent lived with his father a few chains away from George's place. His honor: Did you ever suspect your wife of having anything to do with Braun? . ' George's suspicions had been aroused when he. saw his wife, on one occasion, talking to Braun m a car outside the Xelcich home. She had accompanied the co-respondent m his car from Waiuku.' ' His honor: Had anyone warned you about him? — Yes. George had passed the warning onto his wife. Asked when he had 'first commenced to suspect his wife, he replied: "More than 'three years ago." He had heard a good few people m Waiuku talking abou.t Braun.' Before his wife left the home she told him she had misconducted herself with a man. Petitioner had riot bothered to ask^her who the man was, because he knew it was Braun. ■ '' > . . Marco Duganzich, laborer, living at Auckland, remembered Saturday night, January 28, this .year. He went to Waiuku to do somefishing. ' It was customary for him to make a trip there fairly frequently," and he had often staged at the home of his friend, George Yelcich, along with a" mate. Accompanied by a male friend on the night of January 28, Marco set out for Yelcich's place, -with the intention, of securing some clothes belonging to his mate. y 8 The beculiar actions of three men m front of the Yelcich home attracted their attention as they approached the house.

had taken place m the front bedroorii. After a very brief retirement the jury assessed Mary's value to her husband as amounting to £350. His honor made an order that this sum be paid Into . court within 14 days or a further border from the court could be applied forT George was granted his decree ;to be made absolute m three months. ' .