GAVE UP

NZ Truth, Issue 1213, 28 February 1929, Page 4

GAVE UP

Separation Was Way Out ■ - AFTERJf EARS (From "N.Z. Truth's" Hastings Rep.) Amy Amelia and Frank James Haycock were married m 1918, but it was not long before troubles came their way. AFTER two years of living together, during which time three children : were born, they decided that the only ■ way out was a separation order. Accordingly, such an order was, made by the court. Twenty-four hours after it was made, however, the couple were living together again as man and wife. For nearly nine years they travelled the troubled -seas of matrimony, and then the wife decided that once more she had had enough. Once again she asked the Hastings court to grant her separation, main-

tennnoe and guardianship orders..' Hpv grounds for the application were that now she had seven children to- keen, because her husband did not give her sufficient to keep them. She said he used to come home cfrunk. Sometimes he did not come home drunk, but he brought liouor home, and, with him, some of his friends. She objected and told hey husband and his friends to get'out. He retaliated by ordering her out of the house. Tie was not content with just ordering her about either, for he allegedly used vile language and several times threatened to murder her. She admitted that she went back to him 'immediately after the other order was made. He brought her a. letter signed by some solicitors which said she had to go back to him or the furniture would be taken away from her house. ."I found out after that he had bluffed me," she added." Evidence as to the bad language used by the husband was given by Robert Hargreaves, the brother of complainant. He said Haycock was a continuous drinker and often his sister had to come home because she was frightened to stay m the house with her husband. Haycock m his evidence denied all the- allegations. He said that before his brother entered' his house as a boarder he was all right, but when he came his wife refused to do his washing and mending. The magistrate made the orders asked for. Haycock was ordered to pay £3/10/- per week mainten- I ance or an equivalent of 10/- per week I tor each child with .nothings for the I wife. '"■ l\