NO, SAILORS DON'T CARE

NZ Truth, Issue 1187, 30 August 1928, Page 3

NO, SAILORS DON'T CARE

Creasey 's Marital Creases Will Take Some Ironing Out

' (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christchurch .Representative.) It has come to be regarded as the right of the sailor to haoe a girl m every port, but George Creasey set a new standard for sailors by. having one wife m gaol and another m Broadfields, Canterbury. ♦ .

■pKEASEJY is an erstwhile seaman of V» His -Majesty,' s Navy, and while he was assimilating the intricacies of Mercator's projection, Fate dealt him : an' unkind blow when a., fall from a staging affecjed' his head- ■ - The^d emeriti a and epilepsy which followed' his' injury .resulted m his ultimate discharge from the fighting ships, outfit .requires^ a' tall stretch of imagination ., to believe that it prompted the cunning he employed .to place about .himself a comfortable home. ■-' Some time after . receiving his, ... injury, Qreasey returned to the rfavy and did his best for king ;•' and country until the early. years of the war, when his affliction ] caused his final discharge on pen- ■ s.ion. ''' ■ '■ ' '• ': ' '\ ■ ; Arid on March 26, 1919, the care-free, sailor led Ellen ijEilet to the/ registrar's office at Da'rtford, County Kent, and, for better or worse; ' th.ey faged : the world together. ■■*■ • „ ■ ■' The hqpefully . peace,, contentment > and prosperity they sought m New Zealand, however, .was rather ' conspicuous , by its absence. < -.•' Cr'easey. and (his Ellen were soon

before the court endeavoring to establish whose responsibility it was .to maintain the home: ' •'■ On six . occasions did Ellen bring Creasey* to court for his failure to ; maintain her. 8' .-. So disgusted did she become with .her delinquent, spouse that she immer-sed-him on one, occasion with the unsavory liquid contents of a bucket. For, this lapse; she received a term of imprisonment for 1 assault. \ While she was detained as a guest of George, "VY Creasey, .apparently feeling the . loss Of a companion — though one whom he was unwilling to support — advertised for a Wife. His advertisement was answered :■ by Alice Mabel Humphries, of Broadfields, and . the pair were married at the . Methodist Church, . . Broadfields, on January 28, 1928. Lawyer A. A. McLachlan' pleaded eloquently " before Judge. Adams at Christchurch last week, when Creasey pleaded l guilty to a charge of bigamy.. His honor took into ' consideration Cr'easey'S' physical • and mental cbndi--tion when' imposing a term .of nine months' imprisonment. ' , : - ,