WOMAN’S ASTONISHING “DISCOVERY.”

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8777, 3 April 1907, Page 4

WOMAN’S ASTONISHING “DISCOVERY.”

A ■woman, who declared that, another man wrs imper&onathig Ik * husband, and had socxeedrl in deceiving hor and hoc children for a considerable time, applied to the Magistrate at the Willesden Police Court for advice.

The man, she said, was almost the double of her husband, hut he was a little stouter. She declared that she had been married for 14 years, and could not ho mistaken. “Do yon mean to tell mo that you do not know your husband from another man?” said the Magistrate. “He is remarkably like him, only stouter”, was the reply; “out I am sure it is not my husband who is living with me now.” “When did the change take place?” the Magistrate asked. “I cannot say that. I first noticed it a few days ago.” “Have you spoken to him about it?” “Ho, I have not mentioned it to him yet. ” “Is lie kind to yon?” “Not so kind as my real husband. He was bad. enough, hut this man fairly wipes his foot on mo and ■walks over roe.” “Does ho act the same in other ways?” “Yes,*” said tiro woman: “ho comes home at night and Jars his tea ;uhl goes about tbo house in exactly the same way. Bos habits are very much the same.” ■ “Have you any children?” was the next question. “Yes; live,” was the reply. “And do they think ha is their fatner?” “Yes; they call him ‘Daddy. ’ ” “Now, don’t you think you arc under some dolus ion?” said the Magi.*strata. ‘ l l don't, sir, ’’ the woman insisted. “I am perfectly sure this man is not my husband, however much ho may be like him.” The Magistrate said it was the most extraordinary case lie ha t over hoard of, and ho advised the woman to bring the man to him if she could, that lie might inquire into the matter for lurnse!".