WIFE MADE A SERVANT

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3506, 8 June 1920, Page 2

WIFE MADE A SERVANT

A wife who‘saill thziteafter her 1113.2‘riage her husband took her to his mofher and made her act as 3. servant told a pathetic story at Tottenham Police Court. Sunimoning her husband for neglecting to maintain hm‘, she asked the cburi; to grant her :1 sepeai-ation order with alimony. She told the court that an :heL=l~ marriage three years ago they went to live at his parents home. She consented to help hie mother in the hr.-me. but before she Was regaTrded as the .<erv:»lnt. Mr \\'iudsc~r (her solicitor): You had fo Wait on the family of eleven ‘.’——"r'es:. She added t‘~.l:=.t for eigln weeks; her husband did not. speak to her_ He gave her £2 a week. 35/ of which was for his mother for board and lodging. Often she was left with less than 1/ for herself. ifood was given to her in exchange for ‘her services. The husband then called his brutlier and his mother. Both said they did not want her to come back to their home. “ The magistra.*e g‘x-anted the wife a separation order, and ordered €‘nr.= ‘.2u.<band to pay his wife 35/ a wee}: