A HUSBAND'S WOES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1007, 21 September 1882, Page 3

A HUSBAND'S WOES.

It is not often Hint a diV-rc;; is sued for hy a husband on atvmint of bis i wife’s “ bmtalitv,” but such a case j (writes the ’Frisco correspondent of the Auckland Herald) has ocjnpied our Courts for two days. The lady in the case i*, it is alleged, possessed of “ extraordinary strength and daring.” • She must be, according to the list of cruelties practised by her upon her unfortunate worse half, as he must be to have stood it all for $0 many years. For four years Mrs Isabella Browne had made it pretty lively, having attacked him twenty times m a manner worthy of a prize-fighter. Once the poor fellow was “ beaten, battered, and cut” with clenched fists, open hands, and finger nails. His beard was pulled out by the roots by the handful, while In’s skin, nose, cheeks and forehead were for long periods of time in a bleeding, torn, scarred, sore, and disordered state. Once this terrible Amazon cut his arm ’With 11 table knife. Again, the poor man’s brow was disfigured by a pitcher which the fury hurled at. his head. Vainly did poor James endeavor to quell the insane rage of Mrs Browne, in trying to do which he dislocated his right arm for the first time, A year after she repeated the dose on his left under similar conditions. Then did Mrs Browne “ pull, twist and wrench” the injured limb, bringing the battle to a close by pounding him with an umbrella, These awful facts, coupled with pool James’ statement that Mrs Browne indulged in language by no means parliamentary, caused him to sue for an absolute divorce, lest in the end he should lose his life at the hands of naughty, unkind, Mrs Browne, The Judge expatiated largely on the enormity of madam’s proceedings, and granted the divorce, but I have not he ird that the lady was also bound to pay alimony to her much abused lord, but not master ; so you see we women do sometimes get the best of it.