MARY'S TENNER

NZ Truth, Issue 1193, 11 October 1928, Page 7

MARY'S TENNER

Strange Doings of M - Wharfle i

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland'Reiijl Strange statements, more ofteii) , than not quite Irrelevant, art sometimes spoken from the wit-ness-box m court, and when Mary Holmes stated m the Police Court last week that "it ia not unusual for a watersider to be at home" and that -"he is more often horn* than at work," there was a slight . gasp from the gallery, for she is a watersider's wife. ' - DEFENDANT m the case wu 4 47 waterside worker, Jack Racklandei£ and when his counsel, Lawyer Ander» son, asked witness ~lf "it." was hot un» usual for him to be at home at nooQ on a day In the middle of the weelL she gave her opinion m no uncertain tone. ■- ' ■" . ' '.•' :■';,:.:"'': •■•-• ' '•■;• "No," she declared, "he is a water* Bider." ' "® ■".'.- Whether Eliza Baker had had any experience of wharfle husbands waf not stajted, /f or she admittefl "that shi was not living with her husband, feuf she trusted Racklander and loaned him> £10. ' ■