MAN'S DOUBLE LIFE.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 13, 21 August 1930, Page 9

MAN'S DOUBLE LIFE.

DISCOVERY WHEN WI^E PAID

SURPRISE VISIT

.A husband's double'lift and the discovery of his deception by his wife were described at Longton when Mrs Florence Louisa Bates; of Wharfs street, Longtdn, applied: for a separation order with mainenance against her husband, John Albert Bates of Hunter Hall-road', Dagenham, on the ground) of desertion^ Mrs Bates was overcome with emotion while giving evidence and on one occasion seemed so near collapsing that she was given a glass; of wate/.She, stated that she had been married 21 years. Her husband was a boiler-maker and until last year she always accompanied him when his -work took / him to. -■different parts of the ; country still maintaining their home at Longton. Last year she ivyent witli Mm to Bids tol but as the:lodgings were unsatisfactory it was agreed' that she should return to Longton. until he could' get bet-" ter accommodation; He had been to several places since and had been home on occasions but had never taken her*away with him again. He. finally went- to Londoniinci on the last occasion upon which he returned to see' her he

TOOK AWAY THEtB MOTOR GAR When she asked to join him in London he made the excuse that he --was in the slums and that the place was not suitable for her. She had writen to him at -his works at times, begging, him to com homeland work.in the Potteries ■ and when onee 7he wrote saying that he -was unwell she again begged him to come home to be nursed. In February- last, thinking he might be in low water, she went to London to see him, iShe did not know his private address so called at the works He did hot receive, her very cordially and she said, "You don't seem very glad to

see me."

He replied that he was not and then confessed .that he had a ©liilci by another woman, "fhe shock was such that she collapsed,but on-recovering she insisted on going to see the woman with the idea of making some arrangement for the maintenance of the child. , She then re-

ceived a further shock, for sH'e. discover-

Ed tlmt lior liu.sband was living with, unotlier woman iv a council house at Dagen ham. —The order was/granted' with 30s a week maintenance allowance. .