"THE WIFE'S SECRET."
At the Westminster Police Court, London, a dirty-looking woman, giving the name of Mary Ann Keverett, was charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance. Mr Craven, of St. Michaels-terrace, Pimlico, said : On unexpectedly arriving ' home, at half-past five that evening, I found this woman in my house, and my wife in a dreadful state. I found that the defendant had been in the habit of coming to the house, and by intimidation, extorting money from my wife. She had been there before in the course of the day, and had refused to leave. She then had her taken to the station, when she threw stones at her and behaved very ill. She was then permitted to go at large, but returned, thundered at the door, and disturbed the entire neighborhood. Mr Arnold : Do you know anything of her 2 " Complainant : To my great surprise I discovered last night that this woman is my w ife's mother. Mr Arnold : Were you not acquainted with the fact before I Complainant : 1 was not. I did not know even of her existence until last night. Defendant : She has always disowned me. lam not fine enough for her. Complainant: And another very extraordinary thing is that my wife's sister, • another of tins woman's daughters, has beea living servant with us, and I did not know it. For fourteen years I have been deceived. Mr Arnold : Did you not know ydui i wife's sister all. that time 1 Complainant : I assure you I did not. I never thought of such a thing. • Mr^&rnqid >: It is a very odd discovery. Complainant:; It is. My wife confessed; it. -' This woman, has-been" for years'living ! upon me. I may say that she has had i hundreds $039, my wife» She has been.
constantly there during my absencethrea<B teningher. '-.-•, •, - Wm Defendant : I hav'nt ' had hundreds, A How can ' you say so ! lam poor, so h>y:E 'daughfer don't' own me, r,- ' n X Mr Arnold -ordered defendant to ent^H into recognizance to keep the peace foriH six minths. ' ' ' • . ** 4»
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 50, 1 May 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)
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342"THE WIFE'S SECRET." Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 50, 1 May 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)
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