WIFE'S UNHAPPY STORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 5

WIFE'S UNHAPPY STORY.

A SIX MONTHS' COURTSHIP.

SHOCKING TREATMENT ALLEGED.

" I had absolutely nothing in the house last Christmas day as my husband had drunk all his wages," was a statement made to Mr. C. C. Kettle,, S-M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The speaker, Lucia Mary Morrow, had made an application for a separation order against her husband, Alfred Morrow, an engineer, and in the course of her evidence she told a sad story of marital infelicity.

"We were married in' September of last year," she said, "after a courtship of six months. After we had been married three days my husband became very jealous, for no reason whatever, and he began to ill-treat me. He had been drinking heavily, and had the delirium tremens. After our marriage he was always drunk, and ho used to beat me for no reason. Ho could not keep a position anywhere owing to his drinking habits, and at nights the neighbours could get no sleep owing to his behaviour."

Continuing, witness said that when she was ill, defendant had refused to pay her medical expenses, and the doctor had nad to treat her for nothing. In reply to the magistrate, Mrs. Morrow said that she had never received a single penny from her husband, and that everything she possessed had been. given to her by her mother. At this stage witness declared that she wanted the ease struck out, as she was going to sue for a divorce. No objection was raised by the defendant, who was in Court, and tho case was accordingly struck out.