NOT HIS WIFE

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1926, Page 4

NOT HIS WIFE

HUSBAND’S REPUDIATION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March’ 5. Liability was repudiated in an unusual manner when a claim was made in the Magistrate’s Court by Kirkcaldie and Stains Ltd. against Randolph Percy Sims of the Railway Department, for £34/13/4, for goods alleged to have been supplied to ’Betty Sims, defendant’s wife. It was stated in evidence that'when approached, defendant said that he could not pay; also that Mrs. Simß was not his wife, but housekeeper. Mrs. Sims gave evidence that she had been married to defendant for nine years. They were first married, in California, then when she heard his second wife was suing for alimony, she wished another cereniony, and this was performed in' Mexico. She had been married before she met Sims, who she said had been treating her badly since they canie to New Zealand. She often had very little to live on, while Sims had an income of twenty pounds a week, and was allowing liis second wife twenty pounds a month still. Defending counsel claimed a verdict or nonsuit as credit was given by Kirkcaldies to Mrs. Sims. Decision was reserved.