A FAITHLESS HUSBAND'S LOVE CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 75, 3 February 1879, Page 2

A FAITHLESS HUSBAND'S LOVE CORRESPONDENCE.

At Woolwich Police Court, on' Nov. 23rd, John Patchings.appeared to an adjourned summons,-in which.lie.-was.charged >itlP ' noglocting to support his wife and daughter. Selina. Bitching*, the defendant's wife', Va'id that she had received no assistance from him since the 18th of October, on which day ■ she found n pticM.of;letter(iiv'.his ; pboltet. She ascertained from their contents that he had been for several months in correspondence with a young woman, who had been in the same service at Shooter's Hill, and she spoko to hiin on the subject. Ho became vory angry, aud broke up the home, removing the furniture, to a warehouse. She had. viously suspected tho yourig 1 wonianjjand ■ believed- that the ill-treatment of horliusSand was deliberately meant to shorten her., life. The defendant had twice asked- her'doctor if ' she would novcr die, The young woman used to come and s'eo her when ill,''.anil kiss her; The letters . produced '• were-.%". her handwriting. ■ The defendant, being said, thathe had a home for his wifoto g'o,.to, and ho had novcr refused to support lior;' 'Mr Kimljcr haritlcd him the"- folloivTßg which he read:—"My dearest-Harry,—At last I can call you so aud feel it. Ido really * love you dearly, audi will try aud do ; overy." l thing that lies in my power. to : uiiike you I very happy.. You shall find that you have not gone through all that you have forme in vain. I will try, darling, to repay you by giving my whole life to you; and I will try to make your home a very happy, one—one thatyouwillahvaysfindreadytowelc'omoyou. . - I am so happy to know what ;v loving .heart is thinking of and loving one always, It makes me so happy to know that wc can bo lawfully married, I long to sit-upon your knee, with your arm around me, which you know I love to do. Ob, we shall be so'happy in our dear little home. Put this in the tire the moment you have read it,—Your own little pet, Fan." Alt the letters bore tho same signature, aud all contained the injunction that they should be burnt, In one of the ' letters the writer said, "I have spoken to my mother, and alio will not hear of our being united, only by- a lawful marriage, which, dearest Harry, cauuot be now, It is very hard, but we must wait, and be sure I shall not love you loss How is Mrs Patchings ? Write and tell me everything." Tho defendant read over the letters, apparently amused at their contents, and said he might have received thein, but-he could not be sure. He would not deny that he knew a girl named Pan, and that she might have sat upon his knee. Mr Slade decided. that the wife was not bound to live with her husband, and ordered him to pay 8s a week.