MATRIMONIAL DISSENSIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1931, Page 7

MATRIMONIAL DISSENSIONS

SELF-RIGHTEOUS HUSBAND ’

’•CAN TALK FOR HOURS” [special to “stab.”] AUCKLAND, July 10. “He stood over me while I signed the withdrawal slips, then he drew £l7O of my money from the bank.” This allegation and many others were made by Elsie Elizabeth Maude 'Court against Robert Harold Court this morning, when the wife applied for a separation order. In dispute, are Government and local body debentures, valued at £5050, claimed by the wife, but there is to be a Supreme Court action in connection with them. In February last, Mrs Court handed over debentures to the husband for the reason that a child was ex pected, and she thought that it was 'proper the husband should have con'trol. With the debentures, he went to the bank and raised an overdraft for the purpose of buying a motorcar. However;. the debentures are now in Chancery, and at present, held by the bank. Mrs Court was asked if the husband got violent. She replied: “Yes, sometimes, then he talks, talks, talks selfrighteousness. He’s always in the right. He tries to rule everybody. He can talk for hours without stopping. On one occasion, before the baby came, he talked till four o’clock in the morning. Sometimes he has said that I 'am not nice, and that he will ring up the police and tell them there is a woman annoying him. Lately, he has been living on brandy.”

HUSBAND'S APPLICATION.

MAGISTRATE’S PROTEST.

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AUCKLAND, July 10.

“I am not going to have my Court made a place where a man can come along and ask that his wife be bound over to keep the peace. It is disgraceful. This is one of the most painful cases I have ever heard,” said Magistrate Hunt, to-day, when Robert J. Terry, dietitiari, of Auckland, proceeded against his wife. Helen Irene Terry, on two informations, alleging 'that she used provoking language, and created a disturbance in his consulting room for the purpose of annoying and provoking complaints by patients. The application was dismissed, with two guineas costs.