A MAINTENANCE CASE.
At the Magistrate's Court yesterday Elizabeth Workman charged her husband, Robert Workman, with being in- arrears with a maintenance order for the support of herself trod young children. The Charitable.'Aid Board, she said,,had been allowing her a few shillings, and had refused her and her children'any .further assistance while the Court dealt so leniently with, the husband... Mr H. W. Bishop, &M.,.«ridi that it was not for the Board to reflect on the manner in which he saw fit to treat a case. ' It would not da Mrs' Workman any good to send her husband to gapl. He had tried to make him pay. not to send him to gaol. She and her children wanted money, not the man's imprisonment. He had been, given every chanoe, however, and if he would not pay, he would have to go to' gaoL < * The woman could not state what her hue* band was doing;- < She knew nothing about him.
After .looking up the last occasion, on ■which the man was before the Court, his Worship sentenced ham to three months , imprisonment, with the remark, "Perhaps you'll get assistance now. , '
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11151, 18 December 1901, Page 4
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189A MAINTENANCE CASE. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11151, 18 December 1901, Page 4
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