JESSIE'S TALE

NZ Truth, Issue 1063, 8 April 1926, Page 5

JESSIE'S TALE

" ♦ Matrimonial Misfit THE OTHER WOMAN |(From ."Truth's" Special Christchurch !• ■- Rep.) • "■ > In the experience of Jessie Ash-} ■ bolt, of Christchurch, matrimony is not all honey. ■ ,• j According to her, her spouse,- Alfred Francis, who claims that he is goijis blind, drinks and generally had -a knack of making her life miserable. So Jessie left home. Turned out of the house, she said. But there wa's a home-coming, or at jeast Jessie tried to stage a comeback which did not pan but at all well. When she returned to the domestic abode three days : later, vvhat ' \ was her. .horror when she noticed ' her erring hubby m bed with another woman. Of course, she ordered her out, but was politely, told to mind her own business. ' Jessie -was taking no responsibility Cor the disturbance, which she ..blamed entirely on Alfred. . • She denied' that the whole of the . trouble was due to her friendship with a Mr. Saggers. "No fear," she piously declared, "I don't go about breaking up other women's homes." , ' Alfred made 'rather a pathetic, figure m, the box when; he entered if to give his version of the affair. ; .Hex never turned his wife out of, her home, he said. On the morning she cleared out he noticed that she was dragging her boxes out, and he had said to her: '.'if you can't ; live happily with me . then for God's sake go." "And Jessie went. , •,. He was' going blind and was unable to look after himself, so he had engaged a housekeeper. ' That was the woman his wife saw when she returned to the house. As for his being m bed with the woman, it was all nonsense. ''My domestic life at home with her Has been merry Hell," loudly proclaimed Alfred, "and that's plain speaking." He could liot work and had a pension which, Avith a bit of canvassing he had done,- brought him m about £3 per week. < • 'The Magistrate decided that Jessie was. entitled to £1 of it to maintain, her, and ordered accordingly;