NOT TO BE TRUSTED

NZ Truth, Issue 1239, 29 August 1929, Page 8

NOT TO BE TRUSTED

Freed From His Erring Wife

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Dunedin Rep.) Having once observed undue familiarity between his wife and another man, and having taken her back, Hubert Atkins found to his sorrow that the woman he married was not to be trusted. LIE went before Mr. Justice Kennedy ** m the Dunedin Supreme Court, and was successful m obtaining a decree nisi against - Clarice Victoria Atkins. ' Atkins told an extraordinary story of a wife's duplicity, after he had overlooked what few men would have tolerated for a moment. Jt was on May 5, 1921, that the parties were married, and Atkins, who is a railway employee, came to live m Dunedin m 1925. There were two children of the marriage, but this did not mean anything to his wife, and m August of that year he became suspicious of her. One night he left for his work, and returned at 9.30 p.m., but when about to enter the house he saw his wife with another man, William Armishaw, who, when he saw Atkins, got up and cleared out through the back door. When Atkins taxed his wife she begged him to forgive her and promised that nothing like that would occur again. ..■'.. Atkins told his wife he would see her father about the matter, but he allowed tiimself to be dissuaded and the family settled down again. But it was not for long, and the next thing was that. Atkins saw his. wife .In the company of Armishaw. He and a friend followed the erring wife and her companion. ; The unsuspecting pair walked along the street. When Mrs. Atkins arrived home it was to find a wrathful husband with his bags already packed, and when she had listened to what he had to say she saw him leave the house. . ■ ;■ > Later, Atkins saw his wife and 'Armishaw together m the Woodhaugh Gardens, and when Atkins accosted his wife. she told him she could do as she liked, and that she would please herself. The time came, after further instances of his wife's infidelity, when Atkins was transferred to Otira, and when he asked his wife to go with him and forget the past, she told him to go elsewhere. With the granting of the decree, the co-respondent was also ordered to pay the costs on the lowest scale.