GLAD TO GET RID OF HIM
How " n <=tii-kloi- for the Sabbath" became violently angry and "wrecked tlio kitchen" at bis homo because, there was nr: dinner for him Mas the story told at the Tottenham (London) l'nlice Coin! the other day. ivhoii Silvester Keho!t/,er \inf summoned by his wife, who applied for a .separation order on the mound of bis persistent cruelty. Complainant stated the* during the whole course of her married life, oxtcnrling over 23 years, ber husband had never contributed to her support, or to that of his eight children. ■' He is lazy." sho declared, "and sp-md* too much'time, at the Synagogue. lie is deeply religious, and holds that one cannot be tnie to bis religion and yet work on a. Saturday. On otio occasion my husband came home on a Sunday and ?Ac<l for his dinner. f told him that there ms none, as ho hnd given mo mo money. lieooining very ani;iy, be proceeded to wreck the kitchen.'' On another occasion this devout man kicked his wife out of bed. He suggested that il was she who kicked him oaf of bed, but she told the Court: " I wish I bad had the strength to do so." A separation order was granted, and defendant ordered to contribute towards the support, of his wife and family. The, complainant, asked for no alimony.
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Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 6
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226GLAD TO GET RID OF HIM Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 6
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