AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.
A HUSBAND'S PETITION. \ , By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright " Sydney, Oct. 25. In the Divorce Court, William Alfred Joseph Cross sought restitution of conjugal rights from Elizabeth Eleanor Cross, The petitioner, who twice during the war won the D.C.M., gave, evidence that he had been a lay-reader and eventually became ordained. Differences arose through his wife being a Catholic and he an Anglican. He had given her 110 cause to refuscto live with him, but admitted that under extreme provocation lie Lad struck her. The respondent gave evidence that at one time she lived at Dunedin, where her husband acted as a lay-reader and subsequently was ordained. From NewZealand they came to Sydney. The witness said that her husband frequently left her without ~ioney and food and on many occasions cruelly treated her. She, however, was willing to live with her husband if he treated her as a wife, not as a slave, and discontinued ilftreatment. Judgment 'was reserved.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1920, Page 6
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161AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1920, Page 6
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