TWO LOVERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1917, Page 2

TWO LOVERS.

STORY OF THEIR COURTSHIP. TOLD IN WANGANUI COURT. There is an old saying that the course of true lovo never did run smooth, and this was exemplified in the Magistrate's Court in Wanganui on Thursday last, The story of a man's burning love and a Woman's deception took nearly all day to tell, it ended quite satisfactorily for the man as far as his money was Doncerned, but not for the woman.

Georgo Bristlow, a carpenter, was employed in Wanganui, and in April, 1916, he was introduced to Myrtle Traynor by her mother. At that time Bristow had £"240 in the bank, and in avverty t short space of time an affection sprang up between the man and the 'woman. She happened to bo married, however, and uaid she had no money and her four jliildrenwere in a Government establishment in Wellington. 'She wished to'dir vorce her husband and for this purpose ISristow, who had promised to marry her and provide a home for her children, advanced her the sum of £25 towards the expenses. Subsequently the newlover gave his fiancee money to redeem certain articles out of pawn. He also 'paid her hospital fees. Later he advancfd other sums of money including £3O and £25, with which she was tb have bought furniture for their happy Ivome Mf the near future. Mrs. Traynor obtained, her divorce, and a d ecree nisi was "ranted on December 2. On that day bor,husband-to-be advanced her another £25 meeting the legal expenses, they were to be married early in January of the iiext year, and on December 20 Bristow his intended wife £lO4 tb go to Wellington to buy furniture With. From that day till the 15th of this month he ncvpv saw her. It was found, however, that she had been keeping a boardinghouse in Taumarunui, That, briefly, was the man's side of the love episode. Then Myrtle Traynor told, her side of the story. She denied that fhe had received any money or presents from her late lover, with the exception of a sewing machine, which was worth £S.' All the money she received from her brother, who had paid all the divorce proceedings expenses. Things appeared to be going on • fairly satisfactorily from her point of view when Bristow produced a small pocket book which her mother in evidence stated she had seen in her daughter's possession. It contained statements of moneys received from the (nan, whom she was going to marry. This little pocket book contained a long list of articles of household furniture, and< other entries relating to Bristow. Still Mrs. Trnynor persisted that she had Bpvor seen thp book. She told the.Court that the entries were not in her hand writing. i ~ Then came the turning point in. the whole little story s'he was telling. Mr, Cohen, who was appearing.'for the male lover, asked the one-time fiancee to comei down out of the witness box and write certain matters (}t his dictation. The writing in the pocket book and her writing in Court was the same. She was asked, to write some of the very words which had been written in tho pocket book. At this' stage the Magistrate (Mr. ,T. G. L. Hewitt) took a hand, and on examining the two specimens of hand-writ-ing said the writings were so unmistakeable aB to be a ocnvincing element in the case.

Mrs. Traynor's brother gave corroborative ovid'eiK-p. after which the S.M. said : he had no difficulty whatever in believing Bristol's statements, and he \vouid aive jiubinqnt for the full amount claimed, £2ol),"with costs amounting to £l7 Cs.—Herald.