Kidd's Carousals and Cruelty.

NZ Truth, Issue 348, 24 February 1912, Page 5

Kidd's Carousals and Cruelty.

He- Chased Her With a Carver.

The first case on the judicial programme was ..that ... of . Mary Mason j Kidd,' who asked to be definitely j parted from her loving hubby, Thomas' Allan Kidd, .'Who now earns his daily crust as' a porter at the giddy town .6f Stratford.' Lawyer Alt Hanlon- appeared, for poor misguided and ill-treated Mary, and Thomas was conspicuous by the absence of both liimself and counsel. Mary said that the voice duly . breathed o'er her and Thomas on October 30, \ 1905, at Waitahuna. There had been no olive branches. ; AFTEII ; THE VOICE BREATHED ! they lived at Waitahuna, but, after ! a "few 1 ' month's',- Thomas broke out \ into beer and kept it tip for quite | a long time' I At this \ stage, Mary, who was J very nervous, had- to be accoinmoi dated with a, seat. •j; Continuing, Mary- said that some '! time after, Thomas asked her to • take his sister home at Tapanui and - j stay there for a week- or two. 'WitI ness did 50,., and,, about a week afj ter, she got a wire from temperate i Thomas asking .. foi\ 'cash. Also, I later on, she. was horrified to find • that her swanks' husband had raised the wind by means of . a bill of sale on her furniture, and also on ; his life policy, and cleared to Australia. Later on, 'the bill of sale absorbed the furniture. Whan Thomas wrote from .' Auckland he asked her to , wire, the cash, to Sydney, and ■ she and' her. mother sent all they : could scratch together. In about a I year Thomas returned from Syd- ' ney's sunny shore, but. was suffering • from that 'tired feeling, as he loafed ! round Tapanui all the time, and she ' had to keep both. Then they went ■to Roxburgh and Thomas did a '■ little toil there. After various shifts between- the- two' places, Thomas '. went to Mungaroa, and witness FOLLOWED HER "ENERGETIC ; -, . .HUBBY. i The}' lived m that '■ lonely spot for i two years, and Thomas, kept up his ' drinking practices. . Thomas was a '■■ cheesemaker arid - witness had to do ! all his work. The next move of tho ; beery cheesemaker was to S' Africa, where he. was to join the Post and Telegraph Department. 13e was two • years there, but didn't sent along a i cent of cash. Once more the rolling 1 stone returned, and planted himself 'i m New Plymouth, but she refused to \ live with 'him until he provided a ! 'appy 'om£. Three months after she ! relented and they took up residence ■ with his mother. Then Thomas ' started another home and also : started his beer exercises once more. i One day Thomas chased her with an > axe and threatened to ■ knock her i skull m. Also, the temperate cheesemaker tried to ' throw her down as well. Likewise, 'he stood over her WITH A CARVING KNIFE ■ because she tried to take a bottle of chlorodyne from him. Thomas's language was pretty sulphurous, and his manner to her was simply dreadful. Thomas; used to knock her j about as a mark of his affection.

She took out a prohibition order against him, but it wasn't, a success, as Thomas's conduct became worse during its currency instead of better. In February, 3906, she decided that the peaceful 'ome was no place for her, and left her loving hubby. Jessie Moyle, an ancient dame, who is Mary's mother, said she stayed two. months with the .'appy -couple at Mungaroa, and Thomas's conduct was "anything but manly"; also, he was seldom sober, and used- to shake his darling wife and kick her. One night, terrible Thomas threatened to sever Mary's windpipe.^ At New Plymouth, witness also stayed With , the happy couple, but had to /leave on account of Thomas's habits of excessive beer. One' time Mary asked Thomas to go for a bucket of water, and Thomas, after protest, obtained the tetotal fluid and baptised Mary with , it. Thomas had gone so, far as to ! collect Mary's earnings and purchase j a bottle of whisky with it. When I Mary, grabbed the precious bottle and' emptied the contents on the parched earth, Thomas nearly flew through. the roof and tried to choke her. His Honor handed out the usual decree nisi, with costs on the lowest scale.