TWO MONTHS' MATRIMONY

NZ Truth, Issue 327, 30 September 1911, Page 6

TWO MONTHS' MATRIMONY

LIFE AT THE ANGEL'S REST

Wife's Tale of Woe.

A couple of months' matrimony was any amount for Mrs Agnes Morrison, who appeared before Magistrate Frazer m the Auckland Police Court with, an application for summary separation from her husband, Thomas, whom she accused of cruelty and failure to maintain. Thomas, the offending husband, pleaded not guilty. He is not a ferocious looking individual, and; stood quietly listening to his wife's tirade and description of'" his alleged misdeeds during their' BRIEF SPELL OF "WEDDED BLISS '. , ' j .at his . establishment at Dairy Flat, j near Albany. ' The aggrieved lady averred that she had been married for two | months, and during, that spell had received nothing for maintenance. Her • husband had persuaded her to venture to reside'- at Dairy Flat by saying that he had a nice six-room-ed house and an orchard there. In this matter she contended her spouse Was greatly at fault, for she found that the six-roomed house was hanging m ■ parts, there was no proper accommodation, and the kitchen utensils- m which she was expected to prepare food for her liege lord were represented • by a humble "billy." Even before their arrival at Dairy Flat, the lady maintained, the course of their wedded life did not promise brilliantly, for on the wedding day itself her husband, told "hex 1 she was a nuisance, because she (forgot -the key of a chest. When.] ithey" got home; or m the complainant's terms, "reached the tumble down shanty dignified by- that title, I Morrison ■ ■: •' . THREATENED TO ■ BASH. HER ■ ••■.- ' jaw' ■■■ •;.-• ' . ' m three, and then ,to bash her brains out. . •■ '■ '■• . ' ■ . . . / -.. ' ..' On September 7 Morrison informed her that he would murder her and her child— an infant sl|e had had be} fore -marriage, and which her husband had agreed to adopt on her promising to wed him. Before she left him he threatened to buy a re.volver, and would, never give her a farthing, with the result that 1 she I was often short' of food, while hei\ ■■ husband was. having his proper and '-adequate -meals m Auckland. Six days later the defendant rose at four ■m the morning, and with the ,' perItineht remark that "(3-andy is going !to have .a real good time m Auckjland," took his -departure/ and she i had not seen him since. .! Witness ended up her tragic recital thus : "He's got a dirty, filj thy tongue, and the. bed 'clothes were not fit for anyone to sleep on, they vv ere all patched up ;. When I asked him to. buy a . brush to . sweep the dirty floor, he said the stable brush-, was quite good enough for an animal like me." ;• ,-: The complainant's mother stated that when the nuptials of her daughiter and IVlorrison had been agreed (upon, the defendant, turning to his'fiancee, said : "Aggie, I hope you ! and I will never be : appearing m 1 Court on, 'Agony Day.' " "I didn't [know what 'Agony .Day' meant, so I j asked a policeman,'' continued the -i i witness amid the laughter of the I ! court. Before saying farewellto his 'bride-to-be, Morrison said, "Well,. I i must go home. -.-' ' TO THE . ANGEL' S REST." . Morrison, was then called upon to , give his version of- all these dire mishaps. He declared that he did not say he woxild smash- his wile's jaw. AYhen he used the words he I was spai-ring ; at a punching ball, j and that was' a. pugilistic expression •he was fond of.-using. ,S6- far as the revolver incident was .conccrnedi, he sdm.ply wanted 'his wife to have the i weapon m the house m case niadinien or undesirables came along m 'his absence. ' ! Magistrate Frazer, (Considering that ; there were faults on both: sides, dismissed the case without prejudice, I and advised the Morrisons to miake. Lan atteznpt to. settle their domestic 'difficulties.' ; '-/. . ; :. :