ALWAYS A SATYR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 625, 30 March 1929, Page 1

ALWAYS A SATYR

FARMER WHO WRONGED HIS FAMILY JUDGE REBUKES COUNSEL (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. An application for permanent maintenace against her husband, Otto Schaare, a wealthy farmer, who is at present undergoing six years’ imprisonment at Auckland, was sought at the last sitting of the Supreme Court at Hamilton by Emily Schaare. In the reserved judgment which was delivered by Mr. Justice Blair on Thursday, the appellant was granted permanent maintenance at the rate of *.'4 a week. Same time ago the wife obtained a divorce on the ground of Schaare's criminal attentions to his daughters and caustic remarks were made by his Honour against the attitude of the counsel for the prisoner, Mr. Z. P. W. Hickson, for filing certain affidavits. The parties married in 1905 and were living together until 1914. There were eight children of the marriage and the husband was convicted of incest, committed on three of the children, and "'as sentenced to six years’ imi>risonment. The husband, in addition, carried on adulterous relations with another woman, and one of the grounds of the opposition to the wife's petition was the fact that he was supporting two illegitimate children. "The man had been, in his Honour's opinion, always a satyr, and he could not understand how counsel for the husband, knowing the crimes he had committed, could prepare and file an affidavit containing the clause referred to. He could not understand the mentallty of Mr. Hickson going so far even as to state such a proposition when he nad beside him a criminal who had violated all his daughters. It was • !early shown that Schaare had treated nis 'wife with brutality and had left her without any means of subsistence.