BOXERS AND WIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 185, 8 August 1933, Page 7

BOXERS AND WIVES.

CHARLES PURDY'S FEAR. "I WANT TO GET OUT." (From r>ur Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 3. Most people in New Zealand have heard some time or other of Charlie Purdy. He has been a great boxer, represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games, and has held the welterweight championship of Australia. But, as Mr. Bernard Shaw says, "you never can tell." Last week he appeared at the Central Summons Court to secure protection from the longhand strong arm of the law against his wife.y According to his attestation, the said Vera Purdy had come into his billiard room in Georgo Street' and after remarking, "I'll put a bullet into you, Purdy!" had garnished her threat with a series of more or less inappropriate expletives. The immediate trouble seems to be that Vera wants a divorce at one© and that Charles can only promise to "fix it" as soon as he has enough money. But on general grounds the wife seems to have "put the fear of death" into her stalwart husband. When Charles faced his wife's counsel he admitted at once that he had been a champion boxer, but he hurried on to explain: "I am frightened of my wife—l want to get out of Australia —she is a bad womanshe is likely to do anything"—all in a breath, as it were. To add piquancy to the situation, one newspaper rather uni kindlv published pictures of the ill-matea couple-Charles in boxing dre »\ .?£ tremelv fit and well, and Vera, Bittwg on a table smoking a eigare j£ "£ 10 % ing quite refined and attractive w expensive furs. , , was evidently very much in earnest, and the court tamndVem over to be of good behaviour for twelve months, failing which-one month s gaol- . One hopes that the redoubtable Oiariie : feels a little easier in has *??fc™Z . We are told that no man we hero to • his valet, and I appose that boxing Si's and champion belts make very little imprewipn cm wives.