A DESERTED WIFE'S STORY
A strange excuse for refusing: ir> perform his cmty -as a hit-band wm offered in rhi .Sydney Divorce Court the other diy, who Mrs Dora. Mary Crook uppiied to Mr ,hj;: t-:ca Gordon to dissolve her marriase wit: Isaac John Crook, a baker, who had d serted hor. Fe'itioner, in hor evider.c* sadd th.-u they weri married at Narrabri i. 1903. There was one oh.id, a girl, now nii'i year, of age. Respondent is a baker. The lived together till February, 1913. '• Hdidn't want mo to have babies," Mrs C-ruol said, "and he lett nome." After wnii:'".!' six weeks for him to return, she left Ma' rabri and came to Syanoy. One day .-ho mot hun in the street. - i showed h.in the child.-' she said, "and how ir had grown, and asked him if it was not worth whil'-i to have children. He said be didn't want n. family,, and he wouldn't have a wife who had children.'' -Mr Justice Gordon granted a decree nisi, returnable in six months, petitioner to have custody of the child.
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Evening Star, Issue 17155, 23 September 1919, Page 9
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181A DESERTED WIFE'S STORY Evening Star, Issue 17155, 23 September 1919, Page 9
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