AN AGED COUPLE DISAGREE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8825, 17 March 1909, Page 8

AN AGED COUPLE DISAGREE.

CURIOUS CASE BEFORE AUCKLAND COURT cPeb Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 16. It is not often thdt a man of eightyfour and a woman of seventy enter into a matrimonial compact, but- such a case was before Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., at the Police Court this afternoon. Alice Hickey proceeded against Patrick Hickey, her husband, for failing to maintain her, whiTe Patrick Hickey proceeded against Alice Hickey for alleged assault,. and asked that she be bound oxer to keep the peace towards him for 12 months. Patrick Hickey was stated to be eighty-four years of age, and his wife' about seventy. They had been married only since August last. The husband, it was alleged, had represented that he had £200 in the savings bank and a mortgage of £500 over some property. A month after tho marriage liickey "cleared out," saying that he was going to Rotorua for his health. Evidence was given by Mrs Hickey to the effect that she was now unable to support herself owing to failing, eyesight. She denied ever having assaulted Hickey. After, hearing the evidence, his Worship refused to make ah order' for maintenance, as tha old man had nothing, and the application to have Mrs Hickey bound over to keep the peace was adjourried sine die. to be brought on at twenty-four hours' notice-.