MISSING HUSBAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1920, Page 6

MISSING HUSBAND.

WIFE GRANTED A DIVORCE. AN UNFORTUNATE PARTING. The petition of Emelinc Schaare (Mr. R. H. Quilliam) for a dissolution of her marriage with Louis Schaare on the grounds of. desertion was heard at the Supreme Court at New Plymouth before Mr. Justice Salraond yesterday. The ease was not defended. Petitioner stated that she married the respondent on January 9, 1904, and 'they lived happily together until July 1907, two children being born of the marriage, one in 1905, and the other in December, 1907. In July, 1907, her husband left her, stating that he was going to the Argentine, as he hoped to make sufficient there to enable him to come back and retire a few years later. They parted fin affectionate terms and there was nothing to indicate that her hus-band-did not intend to return. In 1!)0S she made enquiries from his relatives in New Zealand, also in Australia, Colombo and Atgen'tine, as to whether her husband was still alive, but she discovered no trace of him and she believed he might be dead. She could not account for his failure to return as, they wore very happy together. Her husband left her between £3O and £4O when he sailed from New Zealand, but she had received nothing since then. The two children were living with her and she maintained- herself and children by housekeeping and taking boarders. She had heard nothing of her husband since the end of 1907.

evidence wa6 given by Hugh McCoy, carpenter, of Normanby, brother-in-law of the petitioner. His Honor granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months. No order for costs was asked for.