A YOUNG MAN'S DEBT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14934, 6 March 1912, Page 7

A YOUNG MAN'S DEBT.

RAX OFF WITH SWEETHEARTS Sill;--' MONEY. [ST TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington', Tuesday. • 'A TEH'S unusual story was unfolded in the ■ Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, when a young man appeared in the wit- ; ness-box as the judgment debtor, and a wo- ? man as the creditor. 1 >/■ " This man," said Mr. P. W. Jackson i(the woman's solicitor), "was engaged to Mil ?bo married to the judgment creditor. She 1 loaned him £30 to help to make a home - for them. No sooner had he got the money, than he cleared out of New Zealand to »i America, and remained there for two years 4 ' a-half. During that time the engage- -• Went was kept. He married when ho came > back, but chose another girl. A distress ■ ''.i! warrant was \ a ken out, but he had taken . good care to put all his goods in the name 1 /,of his wife. It is a very mean business ,*< , throughout." i i In reply to questions the debtor swore that, his wages were £27« a week, and that he had no interest in his father's business" He drew a pension amounting to *bout 8s a week for an arm he got injured f' if tho United States. He admitted that * k® got married after the aim was injured. '• Ho added that if (ho circumstances were «|{ttchthat he could ventilate them he would a Wo to clear himself. order that the debtor should pay fSSMk 1 , debt olf by instalments of 10s per ' was made. ■ - »' ' ~