CALLOUS CHEEK.

NZ Truth, Issue 245, 5 March 1910, Page 6

CALLOUS CHEEK.

fhe "Bide" of Edward Green. . The Christchurch Railway Employees' Sick, Benefit Society is a virtuous or-, ganisation whose rules encourage morality atrioiigst its members. One of these, Edward Green, got ahead bf the . society recently by drawing ; £10 tor the burial of a lady whom he repvesented to bt. his ■wife,. but who really wasn't his legal missus. The society then sued him for the, return; of ;the tenner, Edward resisting the claim with spirit. Lawyer Donnelly, for the society, called William Bultitude, its secretary, from v/hose evidence' it would appear that on September 23, 1907, the cash was handed to Green to bury his supposed missus. 'Afterwards it came to the society's ears that Green had been merely living with 1 the, Wpman, who hadn't been churched m •the usual Tray. Green was > spoken to severely on the subject and admitted thai he had-inot sworn to love, honor and obey the lamented 1 deceased ; but he contended that he was entitled to the money on account of his real wife, who died m the Lambeth wort house, England, m 1906, and who was buried as a pauper. The rules of the v society expressly stated that the female remains upon which the f ©a was expended must be those of the member's legal wife. , Speaking m defence,. Green said that the secretary who bossed the show m iNovemfeer, 1805, knew that the female he was living .with wa^ not his wife,' but his subscriptions were paid to the society on the assumption tha<i itc •'benefits' should be extended to her. He received news from Home o! tht deati* of his actual wife and claimed the borm> on her account: Magistrate .bishop : #as she buried by the Union ?— T don? t know. I .sent £0 home. . . ,- His Worship said lie •Would Hot call jpon Mr Donnelly to speak further.. "Judgment was given, for the society for the full. amount an?, costs.