IRKSOME BONDS

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 4

IRKSOME BONDS

Unsuccessful Marriages Dissolved In Quick Succession (From "N.Z. Troth's" Special Auckland Representative). < Gowned figures and bewigged heads dominated the body of the court room, at Auckland, while, m the cramped space set aside for litigants, packed a motley collection of men s.nd women. Most of them had grown tired of married life, while others were present to prevail upon the judge to make an order for the ' erring partner to return to the connubial nest. What, with the heat, of the day and the lurid nature of some of the evidence the atmosphere, of "the court was decidedl/ sultry, but two judges, making an early, starti managed to dispose of 30 cases during the day.

A I/THOUGH he was married just a year ago, David Alexander John Lee had little to say m support of the theory that the first year of marriage Is all billing and cooing. Ho was petitioning for an order of restitution of conjugal rights against hia wife, Linda Lee.: He told the judge that he had been unable to take his wife about with him as he was looking to the responsibilities ahead. His nose was to the grindstone all the time. "That was why she left me, I think," he lamented. Leo went on to explain that ne had | ccurlec hia wi2e for a considerable' time oaiorc: hia rr«crriace, but ha waa not too popular 'with her psopis. , "Her parents dfd no« spprova o? me, but I was determined to make her my wife," he said. In August la-st, the first hint of trouble came when Linda expressed a wish to return to her homo. Lee said he know that if she went homo it would be the end of things. And it wa«. When he came home one day Linda had .'flown and had taken the furniture with. hor. Leo. "said 1 ho now hurt no home arid she refused to come back to him. The judge ordered her to do so. Twenty-three years -after her marriage, ftllen ■■Henderson; made tho painful discovery that 'her husband, William Henderson, a picture-show pro-, pi'lctor of . Waihi, 'had been, sowing rajher recklessly, a few .belated Wild oats. • - ; - , ■'• "'" "■• ■ •■ . She found put, that William had been enjoying a little affair with another woman .-and that" she had borne him a child. .".■■'.■ She made inquiries of the Registrar of Births, and cleared up all I J

doubts she might have entertained about William's fidelity. to his marriage vows. She accused him of being the father of the other woman's child and he admitted it. The judge made an order for a decree nisi. Resource, especially when it comes to .achieving a desired end without endless argument, is a quality possessed m liberal measure by Margaret Dunlop Muir Gilchrist Millerchen. In June of last year she took proceedings against her husband. Frederick William George MlUerchec. ir. the maintenance court. He appeared m court. on tho day appointed for tna 'hearing-, but tnorc v/aa no c'.za of his wif o. . No wonder, because, while her husband was waiting for his case to be heard, Mrs. Millerchen was ...taking advantage of his absence ■/from home to remove some of the furniture prior to clearing out. She has not been back since, but the judge ordered her home within 21 day.s. Tho chronic thirst of Albert -Edward Killip, and his -conduct towards hi.s wife when m", his ■• cups, finally brought Lietitia Alice Killipr to the end of her patience and she applied for a divorce from him. Married m 1015,. she 'managed* to pui up with her husband's drinking habits until 1923, when sho was forced to take separation -proceedings against, him. She took out a fresh order three -years later. . . ' ■ . Killip, however, failed to comply with the orders and'Lctitia was .. obliged = to keep herself. He had been convicted several times for drunkenness during recent years, said Mrs. Killip. The judge gave her her freedom, and custody of the two children.