"A TERRIBLE LIFE."

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1915, Page 3

"A TERRIBLE LIFE."

WIFE LEAVES HUSBAND TIlEEfi TIMES. " NO SEPARATION ALLOWED. "A terrible life," was .the description which Emily Schaare gave of her married life when she appeared at the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday to ask Mr. A. Croolce, S.M., for a separation from her husband, Otto Schaare, a farmer living at Wardville, in the Waikato. Mr. J. H. Quilliam appeared for Mrs. Schaare and Mr. A, H. Johnstone represented Schaare. The separation was asked for on the grounds of cruelty, and in the course of her evidence Mrs. Svhaare sa;d she bad left her husband on three occasions. Her husband was in the habit of hitting her and had caused a wound on her neck and had blackened her eye several times. She would not go back to her husband, as she "got no life with the man." Cross-examined by Mr. Johnstone witness said she married Schaare at Stratford in 1905, and they had eight children. She went to live on her husband's farm at Pohokura, but after some time she complained of the lonely life, and her husband took up land in the Waikato. The Waikato property was unimproved land, and the house on it "wasn't what you would call comfortable." She first left her husband about three years ago. When she left him the second time she went away in the middle of the night and did not say where she was going.

Mr. Johnstone: I believe you nave had one or two solicitors for you in New (Plymouth. " "

Mr, Quilliam: Only one other". Mr. Johnstone: I can put letters In showing there were others. Mr. Quilliam: It does not matter if there were filty. , Mr. Johnstone: That is for you to say. ' '••

Continuing, witness said: "I have had a terrible life. lam frightened to go near my husband. I last left him last September, and had not seen him since until the other day." Mr. Johnstone: In April last did you not send a telegram to your husband saying you would go back to him? Witness: Yes,

Mr. Johnstone: Did you got Witness: No; betause when I thought of It I broke down and changed my mind.

Claude Foote, a clerk employed by Mr. D. Hutclien, said he had an interview with Schaare on Monday, when Schaare gave him to understand that he would not take his wife back on any consideration. The children were quite happy with his housekeeper, Mr. Johnstone said the hlusband was a man of good standing in the Waikato, and he had always tried to do his best for his wife and children. His wife had consistently stayed away from him and counsel submitted no comment was necessary on a woman who stayed away from and neglected her children.

Otto Schaare said he and his wife lived happily at Pohokura. As his wife's mother suggested the place was lonely, he the farm and went to the Waikato. His wife left him about three years ago. 'She said she left because he had struck her, which he admitted he had done on one occasion. He did not know why his wife left him on the second occasion. Witness had at home seven children, aged from 3 years to 14 months. Later when his wife went away she said she did not want any money from him if he would take the children. 'He had made every effort "to see whether iwe could come together again," but his wife refused to do so. Witness denied that he had been constantly cruel to his wife. Mr. Quilliam: Have you ever .said you have lost all affection for your wife Witness: I said so after she left me the last time.

The Magistrate: Why did you strike your wife?

Witness: She had the eldest boy by the hair and said she would kill him. I ■had to go between them for the boy's

The Magistrate said the plaintiff had not made out a strong case. The evidence was too flimsy to make a separation on. It was a great pity the parties could not agree. No order would be made.