FACT STRANGER THAN FICTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 105, 24 June 1911, Page 3

FACT STRANGER THAN FICTION.

TWO CURIOUS CASES

Two cases which caine before the Courts at Homo the last week' in April iseem to indicate'that even yet truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.,’ In the High Court at Dunlin the balance of a forthpo ol oluse on £IO,OOO left, by an Irishman who had been starved out of Ireland and lestarted life as a picture framer• anfl mattress maker in Wales ras uwarded to liis ne i'll tews and nieces. w(ip lad been previously disinherited bv ’ a family of the same name in Wales. r J he Welsh family, to ■ their credit, now ,g;iyc the real heirs every assistance, niid got all their expenses as recompense. The l other case occurred in Manchester, where two women weer charged with keeping a disorderly house. Only cine of them—the supposed wife of the tenant—was convicted, the other being only a day servant in the house. It subsenuently transpired, however, that she was really tlio man’s wife, though she had chosen to say nothing about it. When ho went to live with another woman she had obtained a separation order against, him, with 15s a week for herself and three children. About Christmas time she began to feel the pinch, and, in her search for occasional work, stumbled on this house and was engaged by its mistress, whom she did not know, and by whom she was equally unknown. By and by she did come to realise the position, but had saved the situation for the husband" by making a point of leaving every day before he came home from business. The Magistrate. now gave him the option of paying £5 or going to jail for two months.