"JUST VANISHED"
THREE DAYS MARRIED AND THEN GAOL.
Marriage is not always a life sentence. Three days after his union with Ada Mary Johnstone, Terence John Johnstono was arrested for theft and gaoled for a month. Apparently he relished the taste oE single bliss again, for on his release from the confines of prison he vanished into thin air, and his wife has not seen him since. This was the story told in the Divorce Court this morning when Mrs. Johnstone sought a dissolution of her marriage on the ground of desertion. The parties wero married on 26th July, 1919. After the marriage, said the petitioner who was represented by Mr. P. W. Jackson, they went to live at Lower Hutt They lived there for three days, when her husband was arrested for theft and sent to gaol for a month. Since tlien she had not seen him.
His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout): "Do you know where ha has gone?" Petitioner: "No."
Mr. Jackson: "Ho just vanished." Blanche Anme Hopplestone, a sister of the petitioner, gave corroborative evidence, and his Honour granted a decree nisi.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 6
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