LOVE AND A LEGACY
That her husband told her he had to choose between leaving her or being disinherited by his parents was the story told by a twenty-six-year-old wife who applied at Scarborough recently for a maintenance order on the grounds of desertion. The summons was instituted by Mrs. Anne Cameron, living with her mother at Burniston, against John Herbert Cameron, wireless operator, also of Burniston, says the "NewsChronicle."
"This man is more tied to his mother's apron strings than to his matrimonial vows," said counsel for Mrs. Cameron.
After their marriage in July this year, counsel stated, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron lived happily together for one week, and then Cameron had to go to sea for three weeks. When he returned he was given the choice by his parents of going on living with his wife or going home to them. If he did not go back to his parents, he was told he would be disinherited. He choose to break away from his wife, and had lived apart from her ever since.
Going into the witness-box, Mrs. Cameron corroborated counsels statement. She went on to say that when her husband came back from sea on August 9 he stayed one night with her and then went to live with his mother. He told her he would not live with her again, and said his mother had told him he must choose between his parents and his wife. If he chose his wife he would not get a penny of his parents' money, but if he chose them he would be all right. Cross-examined by defending counsel, Mrs. Cameron admitted that she had paid for the wedding ring s*nd marriage license. She denied that just previous to her marriage Cameron had been drinking rather heavily. Cameron told the court that he was now out of work and drawing 27s a week unemployment pay for his wife and himself.
"Do you admit that your parents threatened to cut you out of their will if you continued to live" with your wife?" inquired counsel, and Cameron, with some hesitation, replied, "I admit that." Counsel: Do you consider you are a man?—l do.
Don't you think you are an unmitigated cad? —No. The Magistrate made an order for the payment of 17s 6d a week by defendant.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4634, 11 December 1934, Page 6
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