A PITIFUL CASE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9089, 28 April 1890, Page 3

A PITIFUL CASE.

-At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, Mr Stringer applied that John Cameron Wilson, aged eighteen, might be called upon to find sureties for the payment into Court of 15s a week, under an order ef the Court to support his wife Edith Wilson, aged seventeen. Applicant, called by Mr Stringer, said that her husband, after the former proceedings in Court, came to her mother’s house, where she was staying, “and took her sticks of furniture,” saying, “ Now you’ve had me. I’ll have you, and you can go to the Court for your los.” He took the things to his father’s second-hand shop, though he said he was going to take them to his place. No, she didn’t care about living with him. Yes, she had one child. .Defendant then gave his version of affairs, saying that his wife had sold £5 worth of the furniture since the case last Monday, and that he put the remainder of the stuff in an auction room. He had a house in George street, where he was bachelorising. Yes, he generally bad another fellow living with him. No, he didn’t want to live with “ her.”

The woman; recalled, said she sold a chest of drawers, a few chairs, a washstand, and a looking-glass. He would not pay the expenses of the last case. His Worship remarked that they were a pair of young fools. He would order defendant to find one surety of £SO for the fulfilment of the order.

Wilson: “I don’t think I can, your Worship.” His Worship: “If you don’t you wil have to go to gaol for two months imprisonment.”