A WIDOWER BY TRADE.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 February 1918, Page 7

A WIDOWER BY TRADE.

“I am his fifth wife—l’ve found that out,’ 'said a plcasant-faced elderly woman, who appeared in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court to support her application for separation and maintenance from her husband, Counsel for plaintiff, referring to defendant, exclaimed: 11 Yes, that s the man He’s a widower by trade, your Worship!” Complainant referring to her husband: ‘‘When he found out that I had not a lot of money ho turned out spiteful and unreasonable. She concluded by quoting from a written document, which she perused in the witness box, her version of domestic happenings, which pointed to her husband being what might bo aptly dcscribod as "close fisted” and, to say the least of it, short of temper. In reply to a question from 'the Magistrate witness said that her husband occupied himself chiefly in doing jobs in the garden and watching her work in the house. "And sometime# he used to count the scones as I made them.” she alleged.