WILLIAM FREEMAN KITCHEN AT LIBERTY.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 8, 20 May 1893, Page 9

WILLIAM FREEMAN KITCHEN AT LIBERTY.

In our last issue we reported the arrest at the Bluff of Mr William Freeman Kitchen, who had lately assumed the name of Temple Yane. After arriving in Dunedin the week before last, he was declared by a number of old associates on the press to be Kitchen, but denied the impeachment, He was then confronted by a lady who had formerly done him some kindness, and he found it impossible to maintain his position any longer. He was sent from the Bluff to Wellington in custody, and was charged on Thursday with wife desertion. Mr Hislop, who appeared against him, said the proceedings had been taken without consulting Mrs Kitchen, and after consultation it had been decided that the present action was not likely to bring about satisfactory results, and steps more to the advantage of Mrs Kitchen could be taken otherwise. Inspector Pendor complained of the expense the police had been put to for nothing, but no order was made. The R.M. said he could not detain the man under the Circumstances, and if the case was not to be gone on with he must dismiss it. Defendant was discharged accordingly. It is understood divorce proceedings are contemplated against Mm.