MARRIED AT EIGHTEEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 58, 8 March 1913, Page 11

MARRIED AT EIGHTEEN.

HEPENTOTG AT NINETEEN. "DASHED WELL SICK OF HIM." i roun"' wife of nineteen years apJred before Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., to -l- for separation from her husband, Sth maintenance for herself and child m, e evidence showed complainant had BtDaniel Wilson at a dance in the counjv gjj C was married at eighteen years 2fter her child was born. She stated jLt since her marriage her husband had riven her £17. The mother of the pri stated that her Ajuffbter 'was married on the 16-th of tone las'- • t; ' ie did not think the defend,atwantedtokeep his wife and child. j[ r . Wilson had told his wife she must bare her mother before lie would keep ber. Mr. Wilson came to her place and matched the child. Witness tried to get tie baby, and defendant hit her on the /temple. jfr. Wilson: 1 deny that, your shipMr Kettle said hp saw no evidence of .persistent cruelty especially as it appeared the wife went out with her husband tfhen he came to town. Daniel Wiison. in answer to Mr Kettle, gaid "'"She asked mc to marry her." Mr. Kettle: Oh. yes. it was leap year.

Mr. Wilson: Hut I wanted to marry her, voiir Worship, only I wished Iter to wait'a little till 1 was more financial.

Continuing liis statement, defendant said be was out of work and unlinancial when le married. He told the mother he had no money, but she said she would provide it if he would marry her daughter. His wife'"? mother paid the rent of the room for two weeks. Afterwards they went to live at his mother-in-law's boarding-house. He paid for the room and found the food. When he name home even-thing was satisfactory, but he did not like living under his mother-in-hit's roof. Love was strong enough for marriage, but the mother-in-law got a 'grip because he was not financial at first. He objected to sit as a boarder at his .'mother-in-law's table, and see his wife acting as waitress. He offered to provide a borne if his wife "would leave her mother, but she refused to go with him to look at tie places. She said. " Dan, yon had better go your way. and I'll go mine." The mother-in-law said to him: "She cared for you once, but she does not care for you now." A little later his •mother-in-law ordered him out of the house. His wife refused to leave with him, and said: "You go your way; we will not trouble you." So long as they were near his wife's mother they would never get on .well. His wife signed an agreement for separation if lip would pay 7/6 per week. As she had signed it, h did the same, and had paid the money regularly. The mother had been away from her own husband the last seven yeafo He never for a moment suspected his wife of any misconduct.

Mr. Kettle said lie was not prepared to make aa order for separation, as there was not sufficient to justify it. The defendant was, .of course, liable to support hiswifeas well as the child. Apparently the girl wanted him to marry her He did-so, and she should cling" to him as long as she was properly treated. If she Wilted to stay with her mother, and ™t her husband to support her. that was°no •cause for separation. -mother here said: I want Mr. Witom-to take my daughter to a home Impart!- ' haVe "° Wißh * k ~*

J?i *J? c said c would adjourn the £& rife w n eeks ' and expressed the _? i \he hUsband wou ' d ma ke a home-for his wife and child. S_ •* f- wherell P<>" Mrs. Wilson P, ref>1 P remarking, Umdasfhed well sick of him."