CRUELTY AND DESERTION.
» MAN ADDICTED TO DRUG. ' Cruelly »nd desertion were the grounds of an application made by Mary Ellen ■ Alice Nicolson for the dissolution of her j marriage with Alexander Creighton Nicol--1 sou. Mr. Schnauer appeared for peti- I . tioner. i Giving evidence. Mrs. Nicolson said they j were married on July 5, 1906, and the j ' only child of the marriage was born two I t months later. They lived together for I a time at her mother's residence in Ponj. sonby. She quickly discovered that her t husband. a diaper's salesman. was addicted to the use of a drug—laudunum. He lost his position, and then began to 1 treat her cruellv. and she eventually left 1 him In July. 1907. she obtained a j separation order, and in November. 1908, . her husband disappeared and his whereabouts had since been unknown. Corroborative evidence was given by the a petitioner's mother 3 His Honor granted a decree nisi, to be 1 moved absolute after four months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16078, 18 November 1915, Page 5
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