SEARCH FOR CHILD

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1929, Page 5

SEARCH FOR CHILD

DIVORCE CASE EVIDENCE.

(Per Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, August 2. The story was told in the Supreme Court this morning of a man’s search in various parts of Australia for his little daughter, taken from Dunedin by his wife, who went away with another man.

The case was a divorce petition, William Matthew Brosnan v. Isabella Agnes Brosnan, on the ground of misconduct, the co-respondent being George William Spears. It was intimated that answers had not been filed by the respondent or the co-respon-dent, and the amount of damages had been agreed upon as £5OO from the co-respondent. Petitioner said that his wife left Dunedin, ostensibly to visit Auckland, in. 1927. When she failed to return, he went North to search, and subsequently searched in Australia, without result. Later, at Wellington, in the Government'Statistician’s Office, he saw a declaration made by Mi* and Mrs Francis, and the signatures were those of his wife and Spears, who was witness’s brother-in-law. He traced them to Westralia and recovered his daughter. Without leaving the box, the jury awarded £5OO as agreed upon, and His Honor, Mr Justice Kennedy made a decree nisi.