BLIND PETITIONER SEEKS DIVORCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 369, 1 June 1928, Page 13

BLIND PETITIONER SEEKS DIVORCE

AGED COUPLE'S UNION “I had not been married to him two months before he cut my head open with a glass dish,” said Emily Carbine, aged 58, when she sought a divorce in the Supreme Court this morning from Richard James Carbine, referred to as an accountant, aged 66. Respondent did not appear, and made no defence. Petitioner, who took proceedings on the grounds of separation for the statutory period, made a pathetic figure as she was assisted into the box. The petitioner, who was practically blind, said she married Carbine in the registrar’s office at Auckland on December 16, 1920. Her husband was then a widower. On December 30, 1923, she took proceedings against him in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland, on the grounds of persistent cruelty, failure to maintain adequately, and drunkenness. “He came ba: k again crying to me, at the door, and I took him in. Then ho went away again. He married mo for my little home, and when ho did not get it, he cut my head open, chopped the doors down and went away to another woman.” added petitioner. A separation order was made later in her favour. A decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted by Mr. Justice AlacGregor. Costs on the lowest scale wer« to be paid by respondent.