A HUSBAND'S WOES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1159, 26 September 1882, Page 2

A HUSBAND'S WOES.

It is not often that a divorce is sued for by a husband on account of his wife’s “ brutatity,” but such a case (writes the ’Frisco correspondent of the Auckland Herald) has occupied our courts for two days. The lady in this case is, it is alleged, possessed of “extraordinary strength and daring.” She must be, according to the list of cruelties practiced by her upon her unfortunate worse half, as he must be to have stood it all for so many years. For four years Mrs Isabella Browne has made it pretty lively, having attacked him twenty times in a manner worthy of a prize-fighter. Once the poor fellow was “ beaten, battered, and cut with clenched fists, open hands and finger nails. His beard was pulled out by the roots by handsful, while his skin, nose, cheeks, and forehead were for long periods of time in a bleeding, torn, scarred, sore, and disordered state. Once this terrible Amazon cut his arm with a table knife. Again the poor man’s brow was disfigured by a pitcher which the fury hurled at his head. Vainly did poor James endeavour to quell the insane rage of Mrs Browne, in trying to do which he dislocated his right arm for the first time. A year afterwards she repeated the dose on his left under similar conditions. Then did Mrs Browne “ pull, twist, and wrench” the injured limb, bringing the battle to a dose by pounding him with an umbrella, These awful facts, coupled with poor James’s statement that Mrs Browne indulged in language by no means parliamentary, caused him to sue for an absolute divorce, lest in the end he should lose his life at the hands of naughty, unkind Mrs Browne. The Judge expatiated largely on the enormity of madam’s proceedings, and granted the divorce, but I have not heard that the lady was bound to pay alimony to her much-abused lord, but not master ; so you see we women do sometimes get the best of this.