Wedded Bliss.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 28 July 1922, Page 4

Wedded Bliss.

"USED TO BEAT" HIM." "In September, 1911, 1 took my wife to the theatre with her sister. She said she didn't like the seats, and bounced out of the theatre. "On my following her home, she greeted me by spitting in my face. She then got hold of a dress and tore it up. "Subsequently she visited my offic and getting hold of the black ink she threw it all over my papers. "When under the influence of drink she was most violent. I've Been her tear down the blinds and tear up the vines.

''She has assaulted me, and thrown things at me, and she has spat in my face mora than once."

This avidence was given by George Thomas Byrnes, a middle-aged man, who petitioned Mr Justice Gordon at Sydney last week for a dissolution of his marriage with Mary Alice Byrnes (formerly Hopgood), on the grounds, as alleged, that bis wife bad been an habitual drunkard for three years and upwards; that she bad reglected her domestic duties, and that one year prior to, the presentation of the petition his wife had assaulted and cruelly beaten him.

She wasn't particular what she drank, he added. "Beer or brandy. I've found bottles stuffed in the mattresses. I've often had to have the house lata at Digbt because of her drinking habits and her treatment of me." "I could," he added, "always tell when my wife was drinking. Her temper became very bad." "Afterwards my wife and I lived together again at Market-street in September, 1918. She frequently went about half-naked, and sometimes she was nude. She would lie down on the floor of ths shop. On one occasion I found her lying naked at the foot of the stain, and at 1 could not wake her I threw a rng over her. Subaequent'y Constable McLean came in and asked who Bbe was, and I told him she was my wife. Oa another occasion I was sitting with my child when my wife threw an electric iron at me, which miseed my head." Continuing, witness said that he subsequently commenced proceedings for divorce. He became ill, and his wife called to see him. Shesairt: "Iknow that I*m in fault. I'll take the pledge if you'll ceme back, and there will be no more drinking."

Hie wife had given him black eyes, and bad hit him with the heel of her shoe. Be had no sight in one of fa'ii eyas consequent upon a blow which tha had % ivan him. The husband secured a decree nie i.