A WIFE’S ORDEAL

Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 6

A WIFE’S ORDEAL

SILENT HUSBAND

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, May 18. Mrs Ada Diver was granted a decree against her husband, who had not spoken a word to her for three years, though he lived in the same house. The judge accepted the grounds of desertion, saying that | he thought it was proved by the fact that the respondent intentionally, denied his wife everything that she was entitled to. The wife gave evidence that Diver sab at the table for the midday meal every day for throe years, and never once spoke. She asked him the reason for his silence, whereupon, without answering, he rose and tried to strangle her. The Judge: Do you mean to tell me that not a word passed in the house? The Wife: Not a single remark. The Judge: Did he ever complain about anything? - ■ . The Wife: Never.

The-Judge: He just sits and eats in silence?

The Wife: Yes, Then he goes out and sleeps away. Evidence was also given of the husband’s misconduct. —A. and N.Z. Cable.