Katb. Confessed

NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 3

Katb. Confessed

When his wife allowed a letter to fall but of her bag, Peter Setter picked it up, "but she grabbed it out of my hands and crumpled it up, refusing to surrender it. When I tried to take it she placed it m her mouth, whereupon I put her out of the room and shut the door. I then searched her bag and found two more letters (produced). She disappeared that night and returned next day with a request for her things. I replied that if she wanted them she had better make a clean breast of the affair. She wrote a confession (produced) and went away about two days later." , » -

Such was the story told by Peter Setter, of Foxton (represented by Mr. Bergin) who petitioned m the Supreme Court at Palmerston North for a dissolution of his marriage with Kntherine Rosanna Setter, of Palmerston North. Thomas Henderson, bricklayer, late of the same town, was cited as co-respondent. The Setters lived at Gisborne, at Dannevirke, and later at Foxton. They were childless; were married at Palmerston North m February, 1904. His Honor Sir Robert Stout granted a decree nisi, to be moved absolute m three months. Costs on the lowest scale 'were entered against the co-re.