THE WRONG MRS WRIGHT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 November 1912, Page 3

THE WRONG MRS WRIGHT

HEAL LIFE DRAMA. (Per Press* Association.) AUCKLAND, November 8. Stmie extraordinary facts wOrc disclosed during the hearing of a maintenance case, before Mr C. C. Kettle. S. M.. at the Magistrate's Court; Variation of an order was sought by Samue. 1 t ' ie dt-foiul-ant being a" had passed as h.'* __ f The storv was brietis legated to aj.i >-ips;er, who ■,-ppearcd for right, | Ihe defendant not being ropresefticd j by counsel. Wright, ho said, was i married about 25 years ago, but after some years he and his wile parted. lie had afterwards met defend- j ant, and they had lived together, passing as man and wife. Defendant had born liim three children. Eventually his real wife appeared oil the scone n*r-in. and a reconciliation followed. Wright was the *on of a wealthy merchant who had recently died in England leaving a fortune of about I'BO.OCO. He would have benefited under the- will but for the fact thai the defendant had writ ten lett- rs, which had oius-ed the parent to disinherit his son. At the present i.'ive Wright was practically penniless • >.!<{■ was looking forward shortly to a }u;.-i 1 ioii. Ji] 1!)!(.) defendant had ob- *• s:i3l« -1 a maiiitoimneo order against ♦Vrigiib for tho payment of 3ls 6d ivr vavk. the order being afterwards reduced t?l2s fkl. At the- present time be was willing to keep up paybut the defendant was not hiswife, and ho desired a variation ol Ids order. In the course of her evidence; the t defendant stated that a- marriage i :-'-v h,<d been gone thr-OUgll' Be- j tv-i-:'? "her <-'upposecl husband and horS-. If. i'lir over a year she' had believer? they were really man and wife. '1 hev had. met in a country town, and i "Vri'dit had come i,o Auckland. where j ; 1 torv. ards she lt d joined him. Ho j d taken her to a house in Vincent \ -.f-'-et. s)i:d married her, as she lie- j iievod. The marriage ceremony was ;x rf-'rined by a man iii (derical garb, lie w s stated to be the llev Bi'anker, a visitoi- who was touring the Dominion. Notices regarding the marriage, had, asserted the defendant been in-.:-r rted in the Nelson' and Wellington p.,pei's. She expressed the opinion J 3- :-i t they were sent to those papers (she had relatives in Nelson) by Wright. Tnterrog ited regarding the notices in the Southern papers, he stated that ho had no recollection whatever of having been responsible for their insertion. The Magistrate expressed little coulit as to the fact of tho defendant not being "Wright's wife.. The varia- ] tion applied for would be granted, defendant being given the custody of the two children. His Worship remarked that something should be done to fit tho children for the battle of life. He stated that ho.would proba.biy communicate with plaintiff's relatives at Home, with tlio idea of seeing if they could render any I'ssistance.