NOVEL EXCUSE

NZ Truth, Issue 1144, 3 November 1927, Page 5

NOVEL EXCUSE

NERVOUS WITNESS

When Ellen Hay Kept Late Hours

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Wellington Rep.) When his wife began coming home round about three o'clock m the morning, Joseph Hay naturally was not pleased. COMEHOW, even her story that she *-* was working with a private detective did not pacify him. "What is his name?", he demanded arid she told him: "Jimmy Robinson." It wasn't long before he found that his wife was friendly Avith x a taxi-v driver whose name resembled that of a famous explorer, but who was not like him m anything else. Gordon Ammundsen even used to visit Ellen Mary at home. One night, when all three of them went to a party and the taxi-man commenced to pay attention to another woman, Ellen had not liked it at all. "I'm finished with you," she told Ammundsen at the close of a wordy encounter. But for all that, the other man had continued to stay with them. >

Before long Hay had experienced; enough of it. He told Ammundsen to go — and Ammundsen replied that he would go when he liked. So Hay himself left, though he coivtinued to send his wife maintenance and left the two children with her. Since leaving he had sometimes seen Ammundsen and Ellen together m his car or at the pictures. Nervous little Margaret McDonald was the witness to Ellen's infidelity. She had board. J with Mrs. Hay m Willis Street. It was a pretty . full house and she had to sleep on the kitchen sofa. Ellen's room had opened off the kitchen and she had seen Ammundsen enter it at night. Ellen's elder daughter, a v girl of seventeen, occupied the room with her mother, but twice she had been sent OUt to Sleep with Margaret on the sofa. However, Ellen must have felt that this was going a little too far, for she sent the children upstairs to sleep. "Why did you leave the place?" asked Lawyer Jackson, who appeared . for Hay m his suit for divorce last week. "Because Mr. Ammundsen was cruel to me. He wanted to get rid of me." "He, wanted to get rid. of you?"— "He thought f^knew too much." Jud^ e ostler thought there was' no reason W Y, y Hay should remain. linked to an,' unfaithful wife after another, three' mon ths have elapsed. Hay is also l 0 g e t his two children back.