JEALOUS HUSBAND

Evening Star, Issue 22816, 26 November 1937, Page 13

JEALOUS HUSBAND

HI MIEMTNIIt “ Mv husband has been so jealous of me that he whitewashed and painted all the windows in th© kitchen. of our bungalow to {prevent m© looking svt th# man next door.” Pretty Mrs Violet M‘Carthy, of Sunbury, Middlesex, made the complaint to Feltham magistrates. She was granted' a separation order from her railwaydriver husband on the. grounds of pen. sistent cruelty. ■ They wer© married, in 1034 and a two-year-old child. “ Last May he decided to take owe* th© housekeeping,” Mrs M‘Carthy said.-. “ He paid all the tradesmen, and th# only meat he allowed in the bouse on# week were two pork chops. Because I asked him for more butter ho punched and kicked me. “ Trouble started over our baby • christening, as I am a Protestant and my husband a Roman Catholic,” said Mrs McCarthy. . ~, “ Because I spoke to a friend, ml jammed a bowl of potato peelings ov#t my head. I tfainted and was badly cut.” • M‘Carthy denied persistent crueity, v “ My wife has spent most of her time with her people,” he said. _ “ I did all the housekeeping on £3 a week, and I whitewashed and painted the windows because I wanted privacy. But my arms are wide open waiting to clasp my wife again.” Mrs M'Carthy was granted a separation and a maintenance older for to# a week and 5s for the child, and th# magistrates ordered that M Cartny should be allowed to have his baby boy one day a week.