CRUELTY TO WIFE
THREATS TO SHOOT AND DROWN HER WOULD BURN HOUSE DOWN Prom. Our Oven Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. A decree nisi was granted to Edith May Thompson against Hugh Thompson, in the Hamilton Supreme Court to day. Petitioner said her husband had threatened to drown her, shoot her, and burn the house down. He had been terribly cruel to her-. At last, during his absence she ran away with the five children by her former husband. His Honour held that in an undefended case of this kind where it was proved the husband had been guilty of cruelty and had failed to maintain his wife, the respondent could be held guilty of desertion. The decree nisi was granted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 11
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119CRUELTY TO WIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 11
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