A WOMAN’S TALE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 20, 15 May 1914, Page 2

A WOMAN’S TALE.

SUDDEN END TO A CASE. A case at the Manaia Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, in which Mary Conzens, who described herself as a married woman and the wife of Walter Thomas Conzens, • of Westham, London, proceeded against William Hntlcr, a prominent farmer and Town Councillor of Manaia, for an affiliation order and a maintenance order for the support of her illegitimate child, had an abrupt termination. The complainant, who continued her evidence from last Court day, was subjected to a short but severe cross-ex-amination by Mr O’Dea, At the last sitting she had stated that she sent her marriage certificate to her husband in London. On Mr O’Dea enquiring whether she .would sign a cable to her husband asking if he still had the certificate, she refused to do so so, and eventually confessed that she was not married. Her counsel, Mr Powell, then stated that.’in the face of this admission, he could not proceed and would therefore throw in his brief, which lie accordingly did. Mr O’Dea informed the Court that since last Court day he had cabled Home to the parish priest of the Doman Catholic Church in London, where the complainant had stated she was married, and the reply was that no such marriage had taken place. His Worship (Mr Kenrick, S.M.) after pointing out to the complainant the danger of telling fairy tales in Court, dismissed the information,