A woman of haggard appearance applied to Mr. Plowden, at Maryiebone, for process 1 against her .husband, who, she said, treated her shamefully. The warrant officer told the magistrate that the applicant had already prosecuted her husband twenty times or more, and in almost every instance, when the case came on, she screened him in every possible way, - and even < pleaded <on his behalf.' She had been separated from him twice by an order of the Court, but on each occasion,''very soon after the order was made, she had returned to him. ; All this she did despite the fact that he had suffered several terms of six months' imprisonment for assaulting her. Mr. Plowden declined to grant the applicant a summons, saying I the Court had given her , every conceivable help - already, bub «he bad not availed her-. | self .of it. , ' ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10319, 19 December 1896, Page 1 (Supplement)
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