PARK AS RENDEZVOUS

NZ Truth, Issue 946, 12 January 1924, Page 8

PARK AS RENDEZVOUS

Met His Wife As A Lover

WIFE KEPT AT A DISTANCE.

Queer Arrangement.

(From "Truth's" Adelaide Rep.) Lovers, 'tis said, have the power of balancing inverted pyramids and going. to sea m sieves. Some' husbands, it would appear, have sudh a peculiar influence . over, their' wives that "they can persuade them to live most unnatural lives. In the Adelaide- Court Mrs. Blombery said that although her husband had twice induced her to : . sign a separation order, he had continued to visit her "and take her out o' nights like a lover. "I want my 'husband." she pleaded, v The Court couldn't give him to her. ;■',,; ; ;- : .- ■-.■■.■•■.■■■■ Mrs. Flora Olive Blombery, residing at Hyde-Park, a delicate-looking little Woman, told the Court that although she and her husband were; quite happy together, she had| been induced to sign a separation agreement,; and live apart f ronv him. But .they continued' to meet*- v, - . .'..-' „.■ ■--. : : . ".". '•, ':"\ ' "It is' all right going; out withTyoti, but married life Is on, the coat?' 1 her husb&hd, Cleve George Demon Blombery,. mdt6r car salesman, Kent -Terrace, Norwood; told her, according^ to Mrs. Blohibery. ■.■.■■:■ v ; . > .; v:' HIS.; PEOPLE ToJ^LAME. ,; blamed his; people for the unusual L arrangement .mi; her married life;: .•-; /,-::■; >■•;;■: T;,.v'v^ .'■ .;,::•.:■"■■ "We could .have been perfectly happy, if We hdd;been away-fiiom.hls people," declared; Mrs. ..Blombery. . "They- were the 'cause; of , all our unhappiness. ,His mother and his sister gave me 'on-.&wgui time while I was vliyihg with them. His ,\ mother wasn't as bad as, hip Ulster." ;> *, ' .• :;\ ; >,;•." ;/" \.\ ■..-.:'.,-, ■>. Mrs. Blombery applied for an order against- her husband, charging hint with desertion and, neglect to- provide adequate. -.maintenance for betv. since*; November 19. The defendant, pleaded not guilty. ..!■•■ ■■;. ..-■.«; ( " : . .■:■:?:■: :■ <■;■.■■.> MrSi Blombery was jnarrled to her husband on December ?, 1922. But she only lived • with him "for about five months. - During that time they stayed, together^-at the husband's mother's place, the Commercial Hotel, North. Adelaide. ; ' >;-■;■* ■;. >.-.•>. .-. .■■■■. CURIOUS SEPARATION^ AGREE- -. :■:;.*; v : ; ;ments. „■;.;;.„.:/: Two separation, agreements betweenBlombery and his, wife had been signed by them both. But, according to Mrs, Blombery, relations had taken place between, them frequently; since the signing of tfco agreements. .And this* according 1 to Mrs. Blombery's counsel, made the agreements void and of no effect, m the terms of the agreements.; Under, the agreements the husband was to pay : ' his wife 30s a week. , ■When , Mrs. BlombeiJy got into :th.e' witness box she 'became hysterical and it was some - 1 ime before ■ she : could proceed ;With, her .story. „ On May 28 she signed' the .first separation agreement, she said.- On the night' after the separation , agreement was signed she slept with her husband at the Commercial , Hotel. ; The next morning her husband ' took her m his arms and kissed her, and said, "Never mind" It won't be for. lono," meaning that it wouldn't be for long that she would be away from him. He aaked her to ring, him up and let hjm know how she was getting on. ~ She 'left the Commercial Hotel that day, and went to stay at Hyde Park with her ' mother, v \ • "I and my husband , had lunch together m the city that day, and he treated me na though nb'tiilng had happened," Mrs. Blombery said. ■ PARK T-HEIR^RENiDEZVOUS, She. continued to niefet her husband frequently, sometimes m the day time, and sometimes nt : n'ighfe. When they met at night he used to meet her at Hyde Park, : near... the^pdrklands, and they u»efl to go tothl park together In the fashion of young lovors. A fortnight after the first agreement had beeij signed she said to him, "CleS'e; it hurts mo thatrthati paper is m existence. : If you -destroy yours, I'll destroy jinlno." *• ; ' He paVo her permission to go to his solicitoi' to get his copy, and when she had got' it and given It to him he tore it up. But some time later he told; her, "My mother nnd r Bister went mad because tho agreement was. torn upj' "I told him that I would prefer to be treated' ns a wife, and If he make a little home for me I wouldn't want much money," Mrs. BJombery stated tearfully. "I said that on room would be onqugh," . , v s : But Inter her husband Insisted that she must, sign another, agreement. ;or he wbuld pay her no, money.: A second agreement, identical with the first, was signed by bojh of them. , Jr • ■ After 'th& signing of tho second agreement she continued her friendly relations with* her husband. Sh>B continued to meet him m the day time, an well as at night. In t'.to beginning she- saw him just about vevery dny, and later at least a couple of times > a week. Once they went to the "Thistle";. Hotel,- Waymouth Street, and stayed together there. That was because he said that It wouldn't do -if his people knew he was meeting her. HOME A JOKE. .When she asked him to make a home •for her he laughed and, treated «4t -as In. joke. Ho aaUV that hIH people, had ! told him that if ho.ovor went »}ac)c>to ! her again they would cut him right off. and there would never be a h,ome for him with thorn again.' He said that his "Mum" had Bald. "If Clove leaves i home I'll drink myself to death.?. .'., "H'b a pity she didn't," exclaimed Mrs. Blombery, turning to the Bench. i When she mentioned 'to her husband ! m August last that she thought she was m a certain condition, he said, "I'll I wring the baby's neck, arid yours, tool" He was m an awful temper and abused her m the utreet. lv- > . ■ One Sunday morning before the signing of the first nßreomont, Mrs. Blombery was In tho kitchen of the Commercial Hotel, washing her hu»band'B clothes, she said. Hlm mother culled for a drink. '. . - "Of course, she wasn't sober— far from it, w tiid Mrs. Blombery. "She started to call me horrible names. I cried, and my husband calied me a wa*t«r." '," Her hunbnnd had -told her that' bo earned £2 10b a week and cornmlH«lon; but she had found out that that wns n He. Ho hod told her that she might come, back to the Commercial Hotel, but if «ho did he would shoot her. She atikcd for an order agntnst her hunbftml for the pnymont of U2 10s to £3- a week, or a homo. ALL SHE WANTRD. "It Is my husband I want," the young wife oxclulmfrd In impn»nlom«l tonos. In croMB-exanilnatlon Mr*. Blombery snld that she was «i noldJor'H widow before «ho mnrrloU Blombory. Bho know a man named Shepherd, who wa* MinylnK at the Tlilntlo Motel. Shepherd was not ireitlnfr his living In «n unlawful wuy, «» ft»r tin »ho knew. Sbephord won living with his wife at the Thistle Hotel. Mr*, fihopherd wan I not a rrlond of Mrs. Blombery; not I now. "She U a friend of my husband," Mrs. Blombory. declared. "I know more ; than ho thinks I know. It makes me \ boll." | She denied that Mr. and Mm. ShapI herd had txen tho means of Introducing her to ft number of gentlemen friends. Sbo was In receipt of a

pension of 23k a week, but tho pension would be (Uncontlnued next year. 8h« was now m ill-hcAUh. Lat<?r during tho proccedlnfffl, Mm. Blombery's eountel withdrew the information, Minting thru they had no further evidence as to the hiaboad't mcuna, .