SEYMOUR SOWERBY SOCKED.

NZ Truth, Issue 98, 4 May 1907, Page 6

SEYMOUR SOWERBY SOCKED.

The desertion of a wife and six children who are left to battle on their own is an action to be severely reprobated. Different Causes operate when husband and wife separate, but when there are half-a-dozen youngsters to support it is a cold, callous act on the, part of the man who is supposed to do his best by his offspring, and not .only see that' they are adequately maintained, but that the youngsters are suitably educated, and well brought up. "Truth" is positively sick of chronicling the doing of scoundrels who leave house, home, and family, and start afresh m some other part of the world without encumbrance, r.nd without fiivihff thought to the mental- and physical sufferings of those they have so heartlessly , left behind. It is now some time since a beauty named Seymour Wetherly Sowerly is allegfd to have left his 'wile and brood of six at Inglewood, m the North Island. He seems to have pot as far as Kaituna, m the South Island, and struck a good job with a chap named Welsh, who is in -the farming line somewhere near Little River. The man had had an order for. thirty bob a week made against him a while back, hut he. never complied, so the other afternoon, when he was dragged off his little cab la- e plot by; a pflilpeman lie nc.e^a't have

b^en surprised. However, when he was charged with defalcating from the missus, from a le^al point of view, he was represented by Mr. Knight Hunt, who told the Court that the man had been m regular work at Kaitjtina, and was altogether m fair circumstances. He asked for an adjournment for a week, m order that some settlement might be arrived at ; his employer, Welch, would go bail Tor him. Magistrate Bishop remarked that the knew of the existence of the order against ■him for 30s a week, and Sub-In-spector Dwyer reminded . the Bench m the usual way m which the :Bench is reminded, that the police had b:en maVine: en>cfuiries f O r his nibs for some considerable time. Mr. Hunt said that Sowerby hadn't fcee-< hiding, his .light under a fcushel. as he" had been acting as jiidce at agricultural shows arc! what not. There was a prospe't of a settlement being arrived at,, and an adjournment was asked. This was granted, .the S.M. notifying that arrears must be paid m any case, his omplover went bail for Sowerby m the sum of fifty quid.