Salvation Army Lass Goes Astray IN WIFE'S SHOES

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 9

Salvation Army Lass Goes Astray IN WIFE'S SHOES

Blue-eyed Beauty Who Was Kind to Supplanted Woman's Children

"A DEVIL FOR WORK"

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative)

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When, away back m 1915, Maria Mary Tucker had to leave her home and visit Auckland to undergo medical treatment, she literally walked out to make room for another woman m the household. . And, shocking 1 though it may seem, the other woman, Edith Louisa Berry, was a member of the Salvation Army, holding the rank of captain, who bore children to the erring husband of Maria.

f.(iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiini(iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiii THE troubles of the Tuckers were 1 ventilated iti the. Auckland Divorce Court, before Judge Frazer, when Mrs. Tucker sought the dissolution of her marriage with Roland Tucker on the grounds of his misconduct with the Salvation Army woman. When she left to go to Auckland for medical treatment, Tucker took the children to. Havykes Bay, and while there engaged a housekeeper' —the woman who wrecked a Wife's > happiness , How she came to part husband and wife is. best, told m a letter Tucker wrote to his wife. It wafc headed: "Clive, November S, 1915," and read as follows:— , \ "My Own Dear Wife,— Just to let you know you are not being forgotten or really nqgleotedf. but I have been awfully busy of late. I have had to take: Lionel (one of the children) away from j Uncle Dick's place, as Aunty could not look after him and Kate has been ill. She is not strong and has fainting fits three and four times a day. "I applied for a housekeeper and I have a nice young lady'with red,

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