DIVORCE SESSIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 10

DIVORCE SESSIONS

(Continued from Page 1.) DESERTED BY HUSBAND How her husband's brother had undertaken the support of herself and family after she had been deserted was related by liosina Emily W. Fisher (Mr. West), who applied for the dissolution of her marriage with Albert Edward Fisher, on the ground of desertion. According to tlie petitioner, t tie marriage took place in February, 191.0, at Pokeno, and there were three children living of the union. She and her husband lived at her mother’s home for some time, during which abused her, and was always drunk. Things became so bad that in September, 1923, she applied to the court for separation, maintenance and guardianship orders. However, her husband then phoned her, begging her to return to him, stating that he had a nice home. She forgave him and joined him. However, the nice home was an underground room in Newton Road, and in which they had to eat and sleep. As she had a baby unable to walk, she stayed only five or seven days, during which he abused her and was generally drunk. During the next two years she lived with her mother and was entirely unsupported by her husband. She met her husband's brother, William, when he came home and he offered to maintain her and the children, stating that she was unable to do so. Since then she had had three children by the brother, who was anxious to marry her. After the petitioner’s mother had given evidence of the abusive conduct of the respondent toward his wife, his Honour granted a decree On the ground of his wife’s adultery, Arthur John Rowland (Mr. Garland) was granted a decree nisi against Gladys M. Rowland. Perce Colquhoun was cited as co-respondent. Married in London in August, 1915, he and his wife later came to New Zealand, according to the petitioner. On March 15, 1920, his wife disappeared from home, and at the same time Colquhoun was reported to be missing 'from the town. He instructed the police to endeavour to trace his wife, and as a result ho subsequently received a letter from Colquhoun. He visited the address given and found his wife and the corespondent present, tuid also a letter addressed to him by his wife. A girl employed at the house stated that the woman and the co-respond-ent were known .under the name of “Mr. and Mrs. Colquhoun.” An order requiring his wife, Edith R. Cosgrave, to return within 21 days was made on the petition of Sidney James Cosgrave (Mr. Jordau). WIFE SOLD FURNITURE

j When John Herbert Niethe (Mr. ; Hall Skelton) proceeded to Hawke’s Bay at the request of his wife Vera Niethe, to take up a new position, his wife stayed behind and sold up the furniture and went away. He had not found her until lately and on the grounds of desertion, a decree nisi was granted. John James Page (Mr. Schramn) sought divorce against Linda Rubir.’. i Page on the grounds of her adultery. | Petitioner said that they were mari ried in 1917, and three years ago she . sold up the furniture and cleared out. i She was living in a two-roomed house j at Silverdale, when adultery was cora- | mitted. A decree nisi was granted. I "LANGUAGE WAS TERRIBLE” j "Nearly every day he was under the i influence of liquor. He had a violent ! temper when drunk, and his language j was terrible.” In these terms Ellen j Elizabeth Baker (Mr. Singer) told of ; her husband, Frederick John Baker, 1 from whom she sort divorce. The j marriage took place In 1926, and the I parties lived in Auckland. Petitioner i said that from the outset her husband i started to drink. He frequently j threatened her with violence and at I times he had struck her. On two or ! three occasions she had called the police to the rescue. Mrs. Evelyn Hunter, who lived next door to petitioner, said that she had often seen respondent come home much tile worse for liquor, and she had heard him use shocking language. She remembered petitioner suffering from bruises and a black eye as a result of her husband’s cruelty. A decree nisi was granted on the grounds of drunkenness and cruelty. Another case of drunkenness and cruelty was heard when Laura Emily Burns (Mr. Sullivan) petitioned against William Burns. “We were married in 1920 and in 192.3 he started on a drinking bout, which took him from Christchurch to Wellington, where he was fined for drunkenness,” said petitioner. He returned to Christchurch to his home, but from then on he always under the influence. He struck her and she called the police, and for this he was sent to gaol. SELDOM SOBER In 1927 the unhappy couple came to Auckland, petitioner hoping that her husband would there turn over a new leaf and make a fresh start. “But it was no use. He started drinking again and was seldom sober,” said petitioner. Later be was again brought up before the court for striking her and got six weeks’ gaol, while he also got two months’ gaol for assaulting the police at Morrinsville. A decree nisi was granted. RANG THE POLICE Arriving home to find her husband with another woman, resulted in Christina C. McEntree (Mr. Schramm) seeking divorce from James Henry McEntree on account of his adultery. The parties were married in 1919 at Cambridge, and there was one child to the marriage. Petitioner was living in a flat with her husband at .Ponsouby, and on arrival home one evening she found her husband in bed with another woman. “I rang up the police, but they said that the only thing to do was to leave the bouse,” said petitioner. “When I questioned my husband, all he said was that lie preferred this other woman to me." Thomas King, in evidence, said that I he witnessed the affair at the flat, and at about one o'clock in the morning he heard respondent sending the woman from the flat. A decree nisi was granted. A decree nisi was granted in the case of Adelaide Kathleen Pope (Mr. Schramm) against William Pope, on the grounds of the existence of a separation order.