MAN’S SEARCH FOR CHILD

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 13

MAN’S SEARCH FOR CHILD

DUNEDIN DIVORCE PETITION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, August 2.

A story was told in the Supreme Court this morning of a man’s search in various parts of Australia for his little daughter, taken from Dunedin by his wife, who went away with another man. The case was a divorce petition of William Matthew Brosnan versus Isabella Agnes Brosnan, on the ground of misconduct, the co-respondent being George William Spears. It was intimated that answers had not been filed by the respondent or co-respondent, and the amount of damages had been agreed upon as £5OO from co-respondent. The petitioner stated that his wife left Dunedin ostensibly to visit Auckland in 1927. When she failed to return he went North to search, and subsequently searched in Australia, without result. Later, at, Wellington, in the Government Statistician’s Office, he saw a declaration made by Mr. and Mrs. Francis, and the signatures were those of his wife and Spears, who was witness’s brother-in-law. He traced them to West Australia, and recovered his daughter. Without leaving the box, the jury awarded the £5OO agreed upon, and His Honour, Mr. Justice Kennedy, made a decree nisi.