WARNER'S WARNING.

NZ Truth, Issue 217, 21 August 1909, Page 11

WARNER'S WARNING.

A Wicked, Wanton Wife. The experience of William Alfred Warner should be a warning "to those about to marry," to make sure that they arc getting the genuine "good goods""—the hall-marked and warranted to wear. Of course, the trouble is that one is not allowed to take his little bit of sweet stuff "on appro.," m this prim and pallid • portion of the planet- Like the punter who punts his pelf on the wrong prad, he doesn't find out until too late that ho has picked a stumer. Warner had a big poultice of tickets on his own little captivating Kate, and m 'July, 1899, he proudly paraded up to the altar with her, "where the usual "I will" performance was gone through. This was at Kumara on the wild and woolly Wet West Coast, where X ing Richard the First Was wont to hold his court m the ramping, roaring, rampageous, red-eyed days when ,the diggers delighted to .shake tilings up and slash the neighborhood with vivid, vermillion stripes.- There was a woeful awakening m store for Willie Warner. The honeymoon was scarcely over when he saw his rosc-hurd dreum of biiss melt; away like snow upon the liver's brim. Not only did sweet Kitty • SWANKEY MOST SHOCKINGLY, but she also frequently forgot that she

was matrimonially, ear-marked, and set aside, and she developed a disconcerting habit of jumping on her marriage lines with boih tootsies. Removing to Weslport, she broke out even worse than ever. Besides being boohed for boozing, she was ence convicted of keeping what Shakespeare calls a bawdy houso, and the bobbies refer to brutally as a common, beastly brothel. Warner and his wife parted' on the shore after this, and after a while William was arrested for failing to maintain her. He agreed to pay her half a quidlot a week, but got behind and was summoned. When before Ihe Court he applied for a suspension of the order to enable him to get untied. The case was before Mr Justice Edwards on Saturday, one .mariner named Captaia McDermolt being cited as a co-respon-dent, the latter did not appear, nor did the callous Kate. Petitioner declared declared that there "was not the shadow of a doubt that the debonair McDermott was his missus' "fancy man." Kitty had boasted that she was happier* with the red-blooded captain than .with the land-lubber of a lawful hubby. It was also stated m evidence • that Kit was the terror of College Hill, Ponsonby, owing' to her shocking habit of shicker and rorty , riotous capers generally. Decree nisi granted, to be made absolute m three months.