A CURIOUS CASE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3657, 4 April 1883, Page 4

A CURIOUS CASE.

An old man named James Robert Bond, who emigrated to Australia thirty-five years ago, but in 1801 eloped with a widow named Merruugh, leaving his wife and three children behind him, provoked a very unpleasant expose of his personal delinquencies by briuging an action at tho last Exeter Assizes to recover damages from his son John Bond for an alleged assault. Some years after the desertion his wife and chilelrcn became entitled to some property, and returned to England, where the wife obtained a judicial separation, but afterwards became a lunatic. The children endeavored to persuade their father to abandon his connection with the woman with whom lie had eloped, but he refused to elo so. Two years ago he inherited sonic money, and the whole family resided together for some time at Starcross iv a cottage the father had purchased. Ho, however, soon tried to turn his wife and daughters out of doors, and when they would not go he established his mistress in the cottage, and instructed the servant to regard her as the head of the household. In consequence of this treatment his wife, who had iv a groat measure recovered, again became insane. Her son had a stormy interview with his father, but was assaulted with a fire shovel. A neighbor came to his assistance, ?and while he held the father, the son took "his mistress ljy the neck and ran her into the street, telling her he would no longer allow his mother to be insulted by her presence. The villagers then assembled, and drummed the disreputable pair out of the village. The action resulted in the son's favor.