BARGE AND BOOZE

NZ Truth, Issue 533, 4 September 1915, Page 5

BARGE AND BOOZE

■ ; "Not Wanted by . His WifU > ': < „...,. , <v „ ■ „ ■ ;-■ i Sarah Hetty Barge '(Mr.' Donnelly) applied for judicial severance of th« nujiti^ls which bound her to Arthur James Barge, a person given to booza and numerous other incidentals which go towards making a mess of matrimony, . Petitioner, iike "a llfeguardswoman" m blue, reckoned she was tied up to Arthur Jim on December 9, 1902, at Addington. The duo lived m Christchurch and there was no issue of the marrla f 6 - L Shortly after the matrimonial stunt had been negotiated, Arthur gave way to booze and his ability to bend his elbow gradually developed I until it became quite a common occurrence for him to be visited by jimjams. He went cold on Sarah and treatod her to gory language and hard knocks, so that she frequently had to seek the protection of her neighbors at all hours of the night On account of nursing her husband when he was OBSESSED OP BLUE DEVILS, Sarah's health broke down and she hiked out to the abode of Bill Bagg, her pa, who was caretaker of Christ's College. After she had put m a few months with the old man, she hit out for the North Island, where she was employed selling glad rags for her brother m his drapery biz. Questioned as to the particular brands of violence indulged m by her husband, Hetty tola the Court that his favorite stand-by was to threaten; to bang her on the block with a bottle, although he "wotild sometimes vary the entertainment by waving a razor aloft and ruddily signifying his intention of operating on the throats of Hetty and himself. ' Bill Bagg bore out what his daughter had said and a decree was aawn off, with the usual leave to move.