EXCITING MARRIED LIFE

Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 6

EXCITING MARRIED LIFE

KNTVES AND FORXS PROMINENT. VDjihehnina Gamlin, thirty-nine years of age of St. KSda,, petaioned at Melbourne cm the 25th ult. for a divorce fiom Edwin Robert Gamlin, forty-five years of age, clerk and speculator, on the ground of misconduct, cruelty, and deßertaom The petition was heard before Mr Justice a'Beckett, and Mr A. Skinner appeared to support it. Petitioner said': We were married in 1883, and Eved together until 1899, when I left my husband owing to his violent conduct. He promised to reform, and I retained three weeks hvter. He obtamed £SOO from me by saying he would- kflthe dren unless I swe it. He also threatened to shoot me. He use** to sharpen, knives in our presence, and try lie edges to see if they were sharp enough. The ™»™*5 r *»" spent in speculation and gamhang. He would come home late, and saying fliat he was going to leave me, would rouse the chadien, dress them, and walk them about the streets. This occurred dozens of tames over a period of seven, years. He struck me four or five times. On the Saturday before. I left him he garo the ehiklren enough money to stay at a merry-go-round dHW afternoon* and came into the worn where I was. He was asking-questions and answering them hjmseß. J pretended to read a paper, and he snatched it away and slapped my face. He threw a table against me, and I jumped out wf the -window irlto the garden. He csug£it me at fS» front eate, and slapped my' face again. The police were called in. Next morning he asked me to drink a glass of ale, and when I refused he followed me about for two boors, ordering me to do so. Then he pushed me over, and tried to pour it down ray throat. Later on I dressed to fcacve the honse, and be pulled the clothes off me, My daughter retained from Sunday school, and diverted hfa attention, enabling me to dress and get amy. Three days later he took the ehfiiren from me, hot after ten months relumed them, saying that he could not work while he had them. On one occasion, he unjustly accused our boy of something, and afcrook nim with a. poker. I took fi» hoy into a> mom sad locked the door, but my haahaad burst it in wat an. axe, and struck me wife B*e poker. Anoajerthnehetoieafl nryckrffces off, and sharpened a kni**«m*-«*eel, threat-' enjng to kiH me.

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