LOVE AND MONEY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 4

LOVE AND MONEY.

SEQUEL TO DIVORCE. MAN RECOVTRS £200. (By Telegraph—Special to "Star.") WANGANUI, Saturday. In the Magistrate's Court to-day George Bristow, a carpenter by trade, proceeded against Myrtle Traynor, on a claim to recover moneys advanced for a specific purpose, the ultimate outcome of which was to be a marriage, which did not eventuate.

Bristow was employed in Wanganui, and in April, 1916, he was introduced to Myrtle Traynor by her mother. At that time Bristow had £240 in the bank. In a very short space of time an aUection . ->rang up between the man and j woman. S>_e happened to be married, I however, and said she had no money, j and her four children were in a GovernI ment establishment in Wellington. She wished to divorce her husband, and for this purpose Bristow, who had promised to marry her and provide a home for her children, advanced her a sum of £25 towards expenses. Subsequently the new ! lover gave his fiancee money to redeem certain articles out of pawn. He also paid her hospital fees. Later he advanced other sums of money, including £30 and £25, with which she was to have bought furniture for their happy j home of the near future. Mrs. Traynor 1 obtained her divorce, and a decree nisi was granted on December. 2. On that day her husband-to-be advanced her another £25 towards meeting the legal expenses. They were to be married early in January of the next year, and on Deeem- ! ber 20 Bristow gave his intended wife I £104 to go to Wellington to buy furniI ture with. From that day till the 15th |of this month he never saw her. It was I found, however, that she had been keep- ! ing a boarding-house in Taumarunui. : That, briefly, was the man's side of the love episode. I- Myrtle Traynor denied that she had : received any money or presents from her late lover, with the exception of a sewing mac_i_e, which was worth £8. • All the money she received she had obtained from her brother, who had paid all the divorce proceedings expenses. | Things appeared to be going on fairly satisfactorily from her point of view when Bristow produced a small pocketbook, which contained statements of moneys received from the man whom she I™ going to marry. This pocket-book contained a long list of articles of household furniture and other entries relating ito Bristow. ; Still Mrs. Traynor persisted that she had never seen the book. She had told the Court that the entries were not in ; her handwriting. Mr. Cohen, who was i appearing for Bristow. asked the one- ■ time fiancee to come down out of the I witness-box and write certain matters at h.s dictation. The writing in the pockethxik and her writing in Court were compared, and. as she had written )v request some of the very words whi *h had been written in her pocket-book | the Magistrate. Mr Hewitt, who examined the specimens, said tibat the writ- | ings were so unmistakable as to be a convincing element in the case. His Worship i at the conclusion of the case said he had ; no difficulty in arriving at a decision ■ and he would give judgment for the full amount claimed. £200, with costs amounting to £17 6/.