"I'm Sick of It"

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 5

"I'm Sick of It"

MAGISTRATE BUNDLE was unable to agree with the assertions that Earland James Patterson was a drunken, cruel husband, against whom the court should • make an order for separation, maintenance and guardianship. Lawyer Barnett championed the little band from Burnside, while Lawyer Claude "White watched Patterson's interests. Giving her age as 27 years, Hessie Patterson, a smartly dressed young woman, said she was married m July, 1922, and she arid her husband lived with her parents for five or six months before transferring to a house which her lather owned m Burns Street, Burnside. "He has been teaching the children to swear, gives the little boy drink, has a violent temper and gets raving drunk," Hessie said. Once when she had interfered over ' her husband giving the boy beer, he | had screwed her wrist and thrown her !to the ground. -. ■>' On his return from the Porbury Trots last Easter, the wife contended, he was very late coming home, and when she asked him where he had been

until such a late hour, he caught her. by the throat, knocked her against the back door and kicked her, telling her that she had not got "the old woman to stick by her." Lawyer White: He couldn't have won at the races! "On July 1, I came m from church service m the morning and he was sitting on the couch," Hessie continued. "I asked him to shift while I swept behind the couch, and he got into a violent temper, and kicked the settee ' and grazed the boy's knee." That little row terminated m complainant taking her husband at his word when he declared: "I am just sick of you. Either you will have to get out or I will." She elected to go. As complainant left the home, her husband came up and pushed her out, with the remark, "Go back to your ■- Christian parents, and stay with them." Witness was away from her home nearly a fortnight, but on her husband promising to abstain from liquor, ■ she returned. The day after her arrival, Patterson ■uiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii