"She Regretted Accusation"

NZ Truth, Issue 1240, 5 September 1929, Page 10

"She Regretted Accusation"

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

"PRISONER'S; wife is a woman o . ' v: v Rudd, who appeared for Norn ' . Auckland Supreme* Court' 'of a ser r Y ■ daughter, ''and" she regrets that she . against: accused. They have becom ;■ 5 : .anything of the kind happening agj Counsel proceeded to draw atte ■.-, v, , -.-to .mercy put., forward by yth^; jury.. -A. His Honor, Mr",; Justice -Herd ma was clear, it was a difficult case to liev'e that McMillan was far under t one of the two occasions on which itself did not amount to a major c Alt was truei too, that McMillai A : for his family ;" nevertheless^ .:-...■ passed aiseritenpe 'of&tHrpie •-•yes#f)j'#> ■'• . -'• '-" : ; A :^^sy v^^;.^^^V.:::^>^v•>^:^v:• r g -'wimHiiimiiiimhniiiiiiiiifoi^ ■'■■■■■ ■-' y.y^mY{<&y: : j-.yi£--?^.-Yyr&--Yyz theAde'cree nisi-g^aftted,; ,-iWri,92.^^tjt.i de'*-; layed ybj^ the. *prQcesis V, of vthei^, o^S; action.-: y-y- s&Y.-HH --'' '<> • ': y "' * :i -^' : (y ■•:'??§: Mr.; ;E; yJ.I A ; ndersoi]i rplaced -MrJ^Fbr-; rester^s n case:^b : cf b>e\ ii'thl -^u¥ti ! '':and after' referring? to. : a letter 'frpni' the Solicitor-General' bearing on the leg&l aspect of tliey patter, ycalled . his client to. the witn^ssTbox; A 'rt'v: A /<,A- yyAAA:' An attractive.-lo6kingwo.man,- neatly dressed; and to .all. appearances not. more - than 33 years A of V^jge,' ; '.--Mrs'. : :;.Fbisv' rester stepped into the box to speak of-. her- shattered' matrimonial hopes— a marriage "full of a. wife's forbearance: „ On; May 30, 1924, said: petitioner, a decree- nisi 'was-' granted, . but . within three" months, and- before the decree ' Could be moVed absolute, she returned to -her.; husband. s T"his she had done owing- to. the per-; suasiveness of /ForresjEer, 'and n'is .slsteriVHe assured me he^vwouid ce'asi^his drinking habits'and-'treat me irHaf pro-. per manner as his wife.. From August;

>f strong character," said Mr. L.'-'F."--' nan McMillan, -found ..', guilty at the •ious /offehce ;jn respect of his own i was hastyyin making an accusation ie reconciled'.ahd there is no fear of, am." >■/"'.'• intion to the strong recommendation m, said that, although the evidence i deal with. >He was inclined to bethe influence of liquor -on at least the offence occurred, and the. crime one. ■■'-•' : "y ■ n apparently had. a great- affection y tion was out of the question, and he jard: labor. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiniiiiii. while she was m bed and then dragged her around the house by the 'hair. Things became .so intolerable that m August of ■ 1928 Mrs. Forrester decided to: , leave her husband and return to her own people. , . A : few w^eks afterwards, petitioner bowed to Forrester's entreaties for. her ■to return, on the solemn promise that he jWould mend his ways. She warned him if would be his final chance. A He-respected it for, a fortnight only. Thereafter, until December, when Mrs. Forrester left for* good, respondent's behavior was alqng the same old rutdrunkenness and cruelty. y - ' > Had she previously known she .could have -left him without instituting fresh divorce proceedings, she would have done iso,' ,.;■:; ' A J/ Corroborative evidence was given by petitioner'.s;mother, Mrs. Manning.. His y^Lonor granted Mrs.' Forrester the: decree she sought, but made no order as jo custody "and control : of the children..