SOUGHT HER IN PRISON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 10

SOUGHT HER IN PRISON.

AND WELCOMED HER BACK. A rORGIVTXfI AUCKLAND HUSBAND. Ol a forgiving nature wae a petitioner who appeared in the Auckland Supreme J Court before Mr. Justice Stringer yes- v tcrday to ask for a divorce. " The decree-seeker was Charles Albert J Richmond, a porter, wiio. in .September, j IUO-i. marrivd the respondent, Minnie t Adeline. The petitioner was a petty s uflieer on a ship, and for a time they * lived in Sydney, and subsequently re- s moved to Xew Z?a]and. Returning to * Auckland from oire of hie voyages he a made inquiries after his wife, "and 'found 8 lli.it ,=hp was in the handvs of the police c at Wellington on a charge of vagrancy. s Witnreii wsjS aske<l by the police if he c hoi,lei lake her back again. He replied r that he was willing to do so. but she « never returned to him. Afterwards wit-uvf-s again learned that ehe was in prison, tlun time serving a term of cix months at Wellington. Petitioner obtained a permit, visited her in gaol, and in front of the wardens, asked her if she would return to him when she came out of piieon. She replied that she had done •' with him for ?ver. In March, 100S, he ? met her in Queen .Street, and again in- '' \itcd hex to come home. On this occa- "! sion ehe consented, and three weeks later he sent her away for a month's I , holiday to Sydney. At the end of the T ' month she came back, stayed with wit-i-c«.s for a fortnight, and* then ofT she fl v.'cnt again. The circumstances of her ° List flight were that she stayed out until "' about midnight, and happened to come *' in just as the petitioner was bemoaning '' bis lot to the landlady of the house at which they were staying. The wife an- '' no;iLc?d that tshe had heard all that had " been said about her. and that she was :1 now off for good. She flounced out of * the bouse, and had i;ewr returned. On '' ■that occasion ehe had had a "few epots." ft ! Mrs. Irene Welsh of Grey Lynn, gave * corroborative evidence with regard to c the petitioner* final departure, and B stated that prior to the midnight mci- ". •lent she had had to remonstrate with c the respondent for staying out late at niphr, and for going down to a boat to a gentleman friend. Oliver evidence was called a> to the respondent's conduct after the final eepaTation. and a degree nisi was granted. WIDOW AND WIDOWER. * In November. 1914. John -las. Collins. ' a widower, farmer, of Henderson, was v married to a widow, who duly became (Jane Ellis Collins. Th-e wife" had two [ i children and a farm, and the widower : was also possessed of a fa nil. Five j years later the wife quietly d'wpceed of her property, and Temoved to Matamata. p j leaving th-? husband to again take up ."j residence on his own property. Seeking j for a divorce yesterday, the deserted hu«- V '| l/iina stated that he had made attempts a .to get his wife back, out she emphatically declined lo come and live at Hendonion. The Judge, in granting a decree 'nisi, said that the caei- was an unfortu- " jnatc one. seeing that the coup:? might c i have been so comfortable. a t