ONE'S QUITE ENOUGH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 60, 12 March 1926, Page 7

ONE'S QUITE ENOUGH.

LONE HUSBAND'S LAMENT. "She's taken off her wedding ring and evidently wants to be a free woman, , ' said Mr. Dickson, who appeared for a man who was charged at the Police Court this morning with molesting his wife during the currency of a separation order. "Of course she wants to be a free woman, I suppose," said the magistrate Mr. F. K. Hunt, "she can do that if she likes."

The wife told the magistrate that her husband followed her about at night and annoyed her by molesting her in the street and using obscene language towards her. Against this Mr. Dickson ! said that the husband objected to her I bcina out late at night in the company !of other men, especially when she had i the custody of a four-year-old boy. Mr Hunt: Well, he's got the remedy in his own hands, and caD go to the Supreme Court and apply for custody of the child. But he must not follow his wife about and annoy her. I was nearly going to give him 14 days .or this "but ii he promises mc that he will keep away from her in future I will let him off by convicting and ordering him to come up for sentence when called upon. If he does not I will give him three months' imprisonment. The husband asked the magistrate if he could go down the street in which his wife lived. "Of course you can, there is nothing to stop you, out keep well away from your •wife. You'll have to get another girl," added Mr. Hunt with a smiln. "No fear," replied the erring husband, "one's quite enough."