HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 10 January 1905, Page 4

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

1 ALLEGATIONS IN A SEPARATOR CASE. « : Some peculiar allegations were vnadi, j in the Police Court to-day before Mr. Si | E. McCarthy. S.M., when Ada MarthaV ; Pritehard applied for an order of separa-1 g tion from her husband. William P. 1 | Pritehard. I I The complainant stated lhat ever sinea | they had been married she bad been I p cruelly treated by her husband, wh> j | upon one occasion fumed liei v3ed linei i |; into the street. Last Friday he struct: ! I her down with a walking stick, and kiel- | || ed her. She left him to go into lodgings, § but he followed her and made a dis | turbance. I' Mr. Martin, who appeared for th - defendant. a-sked Mrs. Pritehard wh she married him if he was cruel befoi the ceremony. Witness replied that the had previously lived together, and sk could not get away from him. She at mitted having assaulted her husban once, and having signed a paper in 188 promising not to swear at him or brea things in the house. There was no necej sity for such a document, but she copie it out at Pritehard's request, becaus otherwise she could not get money ftoi him. Mr. Martin: Then A'ou signed som< thing which you swear was not correct? Witness: Yes: but I was too miserabl. altogether, and I had to get some mone; Id for clothes and things. I was worn? | night and day. You don't know wha | " it i> to have a person worrying yo' night and day with a paper. In answer to furl her questions fror I Mr. Martin, Mrs. Pritehard said tha ; everything ought to come. out. Sll signed a paper for her husband wild 1 read- 'T hereby gii c you full permisab: to commit adultery." This was bec_l3 he kept her without money for m weeks, and she had to sign the papei'ti get money. Her husband was jeald#, but not in regard lo any particular! 4 * rlividual. j Mrs Pritehard concluded by statif jthat she wanted £2 10/ weekly for M I support of her six children. She co|4 j keep herself with a shop. | George Crowthcr was called by it j enmplaiuant. He said lhat he heard « j defendant and his wife quarrelling OJi ! side Mr.-, Pritehard's shop in Eden Tij race on December 111). He heard S ! scream, hut did not see the defendah j strike his wife. Pritehard whispert' into his ear that his wife was a _H character, and he shouted out that fl would get a divorce. ! A Mrs Archibald staled that she s»J Pritehard strike his wife down at th| shop j Mr Martin said the parties were all ready separated under a deed °\ separation, and (here was no need W*K the proceedings iv that Court. *bm parties had lived unhappily, but tl\«| I wife's story was grossly e\-aggerated. Pritehard gave evidence, stating tliaj until comparatively recently he ?\ got on well with, his wife. The trouble j commenced about five months ago w "^ I his wife started a hairdresser's _ • v,(l j tobacconists" shop against his wish** A deed of separation was signed in_Sef i teniber. and under that he had paid "ff j £21 ./. His wife had been violent and signed the paper vi 1897 without j hesitation. About Christmas time *• heard something which made him go* o ! his wife, and i,here was a row. iv wh^ 11 , she struck him twice in the lace. H e ! put up his walking-stick to protect _*'" j self, and it accidentally struck her. $*W j then, laid down on the floor and scre_»r I cd ' . . .- le ■ I His Worship reserved his decision' consider the point raised by Mr. Man*""