MISMATCHED MATULOVICH.

NZ Truth, Issue 507, 6 March 1915, Page 9

MISMATCHED MATULOVICH.

Booze and Betting. Friday's starters m the divorce stakes made a fair sized field, and first heat was headed Anastasla Matulovlch v. Vincent of the same name. Anastasia, who brought "Costs" Coates along, was the only runner and said she and Vincent were married m 1908. Up till 1912 they lived at Dargaviile, but Vincent was' anything but a good hubby, and his treatment Avas cruel. 'Finally he forced her to leave the house when Bhe refused to give him the money she had earned digging gum. He never gave her any money, and when she refused to give him what she had earned he threatened to settle her with an axe. -Every "bob" he could get he wasted m booze and gambling. When Vincent gave her the shunt lie made her hand over the wedding ring. ' His Honor: Why didn't you sue for maintenance? — 1 had maintained myself all the time and did not want money from him then. Anastasla went on to say that m September last she received an anonymous letter which caused her to go to Mangawai where Bhe found her husband living m a shanty with a woman. His Honor scribbled out the decree asked for and Anastasia is now single again.