A BETTING WIFE
At the Hull Police Court John Stones, laborer, was charged by Mr Duncan, relieving officer to the Soulcoaces Union, with having deserted his wife and child, leaving them chargeable to the Union. Prisoner said his wife had left him five times, ted lie had taken her out of the Anlaby Road Workhouse three times. She would sit in the house all day reading the newspaper, marking horses for him to go and back, and when the horses lost she would call him names. ,She had pawned the clock to get money to back horses, and that was how the money had gone, He was a teetotaller four years and a half, and she made him ' break' by throwing a glass at him and bitting him on the eye. Prisoner, who made his appearance at the workhouse in a drunken state on two occasions, was committed for 14 davs.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3990, 16 December 1891, Page 3
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151A BETTING WIFE Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3990, 16 December 1891, Page 3
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