LADY MISSION WORKER.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1922, Page 9

LADY MISSION WORKER.

MARRIES A CHINESE. SEEKS SEPARATON. An unusual application for separation came before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., at Auckland, last week, when a well-educated English woman, for whom Mr. Allan Moody appeared, sought separation from her husband, a Chinese named Shack Horne (Mr. J. J. Sullivan). Mr. Moody said Mrs. Horne belonged to the Ebenezer Faith Mission. She married defendant, and at first things seemed all right. His client was a woman of independent means, anil it was after she made a will that her husband’s conduct towards her changed. The wife gave evidence, accusing her husband of .uelty towards her. She said: “I am afraid for my life, and I have left him.”

Asked by Mr. Moody a$ to her husband’s habits, witness said he was constantly running the English clown. Witness further stated that she asked her husband not to go to places of ill-repute, but he refused to agree. She volunteered the information that her husband told her he had a revelation from the Almighty God to come to the Ebenezer Faith Mission.

In answer to Mr. Sullivan, witness said she married in May, 1921. “He asked me five times,” added the lady. Mr Sullivan: “You must have had faith when you married him.” Complainant: “He is the most deceitful man I have ever met. We wanted a missionary amongst the Chinese. He promised to come into the Mission work with me. When we were married he wished to return to his trade.

“You knew he had been married?” “Yes. I knew he had six children in Hong Kong. I supported these.” Mr. Sullivan: “And one son fought for the British Eqipire during the war, so.this man must be loyal.

Witness admitted she had told Rev. A. A. Murrqy she was getting on well enough with her husband. In the early stages of her married life she had told others the same. It was Mr. Horne’s fault that she could not live with him. She had seen her husband going to a house of ill-repute. Mr. Sullivan: “On missionary work?”— “Certainly not.”