UNHAPPY MARRIAGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15454, 11 November 1913, Page 5

UNHAPPY MARRIAGES.

DISSOLUTIONS SOUGHT.

THREE DIVORCES GRANTED.

PRISONER AS RESPONDENT.

Several divorce actions were heard by His Honor Judge Cooper at the Supreme Court yesterday.

Amy Adelaide Garner (Mr. Woodward) sought the dissolution of her marriage with William Frederick Gamer, on the ground that tho respondent, on -Tune 6,1912, was convicted on a criminal charge.

The respondent, who is now in custody serving a 10-years' sentence, was not represented by counsel, but asked that the caso should be adjourned to enable him to contest tho point of custody of the children. He had friends who would act as the children's guardians while be was in

His Honor said that he would not make an order as to the custody of the children until the respondent could bo heard.

The petitioner stated in evidence that she was married to the respondent on May 21,1908, at Auckland, and there were two children of the marriage, who were now in a home, where she was supporting them. She asked for the custody of the children and for costs of the action.

His Honor: What is tho use of making an order for costs against a man serving 10 years' imprisonment ? A decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted, in the meantime the children to remain at the homo.

HER THIRD HUSBAND.

WIFE'S ALLEGED INTEMPERANCE.

David May Garner, who was represented by Mr. Woodward, petitioned for the dissolution of his marriage with Laura Fanny Garner, on the grounds of the alleged habitual intemperance of his wife.

In the course of his evidence the petitioner stated that the marriage took place on July 7,1908, at Wellington. He understood that he was respondent's third husband. Her drinking habits, he alleged, had commenced soon after the marriage, and had continued ever since. Asked if respondent had ever cooked a meal for him, the petitioner said she had done so " about once." i*

An adjournment was granted in order that inquiries might be made as to respondent's habits.

A SECRET MARRIAGE.

FOLLOWED'BY DESERTION.

In the case of Frances Russell Jowitt (Mr. Woodward) v. Edmund Jowitt, the ground of tho action was desertion. In the courso of her evidence the petitioner stated that since her marriage on October 17, 1902, which for the first eight months had been kept secret, the respondent had never provided a home for her and had contributed towards her support at the home of her parents for nine months only. Two children were the issue of the marriage, one surviving. The respondent, she understood, had been successful in tho gum industry *and was now at Makara. Petitioner mentioned that the respondent had not for years communicated with his own people, with whom she was on terms of intimacy. A decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted, tho petitioner being given the custody of the child and costs.

AUSTRIAN UNION DISSOLVED.

PARTNER BREAKS UP HOME.

Ivan Jugovich, an Austrian, asked that his marriage with Frances Jugovich should be dissolved on the ground of the misconduct of respondent with Kazimir Jukich. Mr. Pullen appeared for the petitioner, who, through an interpreter, told the Court that he had been married in his native country in 1906, two children being the issue of the union. On coming to New Zealand he started work at Papakura as a gumdiggor, co-respondent being his partner. Petitioner was 44 years of age, and respondent 28 and co-respondent 26. His wife had absconded with Jakich three years ago and was now living with him. The children were at present in tho Onehunga Catholic Home. A decree nisi, to be made absolute in throe months, was granted with costs, on the lowest scale against the co-respondent, the children to remain in the home in the meantime.