DIVORCE AFTER 49 YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 19

DIVORCE AFTER 49 YEARS.

AGED WTFE'S AMAZING STORT. A remarkable divorce case came before Mr. Justice HUI in the Divorce Court, in which the ages of the petitioner and her husband were given as 69 and 72 respectively. The marriage took place as long ago •s 1873. The petitioner was Mrs. Susannah Black, of Longwood, near HuddersfielA. She said tbat in 1579, her husband brought into the bouse a woman, and said he was the cause of her condition. He told her that she was to look after the woman, but petitioner «ald she objected many times. Because of tbe woman's presence her health began to suffer, but her husband said if she did not like it she could take her " hook." He made arrangements with the woman about the rent book, and the woman told her that she was tbe "missus" of the house, and could throw her out. When her husband assaulted the petitioner, she left him. In the following year she got employment, and had been at work ever since. In January of this year she went to Union Road, Warwick, where she found her husband living with a woman named- Elizabeth Blackburn. Mr. John T. Sykes, a Huddersfleld solicitor, said he went with Mrs. Black to Warwick and saw Mr. Black and the woman Blackburn. When he served the dlvorc* papers on them, they told him that they had. lived together there for a long time. They did not deny tbat they bad committed adultery, and Mr. Black, pointing to a framed photograph hanging on the wall, said "That's our eldest son, who was killed in the war." Mrs. Black was granted a decree nisi with costs.