WILFRED'S WAY

NZ Truth, Issue 1148, 1 December 1927, Page 9

WILFRED'S WAY

Why Pauline Refused

To Return

(From "N.O. Truth's" Special Auokland Rep.) _ Magistrate Hunt refused to believe that things were as unpleasant In the household of Pauline Wilson as that rather attractive young wife endeavored to ' oohvey at the Auckland Maintenance Court last week, when she asked for a separation order with maintenance against her husband, Wilfred Herbert. "T DON'T want either of them to go _ away with the idea that lie or she has scored a win," was the observation of the S.M. after Pauline had de-: scribed her unhappy married life. ft was a regular thing, she told the court, for her husband to come home every Friday and Saturday night m a state of semi- intoxication. It was a night on whioh she had received a discolored eye from her husband that he told her to put on her coat and "get out."" Like a dutiful and/ obedient spouse she left* but home ties were strong enough 'to recall her and she returned about ten o'clock the same evening. "He kicked me," declared the unhappy Pauline. "I did not go outside on the Saturday or Sunday beoause my eye was terrible." Magistrate V Advice ■ ■ v On . the Monday sh© visited the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to r Women and Children and was advised to give her husband another chance. On Another' week-end, the wife said, her husband threw a cup of tea over her and confiscated her engagement ring. . fe Thls was the last straw for Pauline and she paid a Becond visit to the society.. * ' She had not been back to-her husband since, but on his receiving a summons In connection with court proceedings he had come along arid used some "very terrible language." "Have you ever said you were tired of married life?" inquired Lawyer Moody. '.' . "No, but he has said (he was.. He said he would not live with me five minutes if it were not for the baby/ 1 Pauline's" mother entered the witness-box. She . was somewhat eager to give evidence and Lawyer Adams had twice to subdue her. yShe had seen her son-in-law come home with six bottles of beer, she said. He was intoxicated. The father- m -law * wfis also called, but Magistrate Hunt did not consider it a case for separation. "You had better go back," he told the wife. "I won't go back!" persisted Pauline with emphasis. < Lawyer Adamsa "He may be an angel outside, but he is a positive devil at home." i Magistrate Hunt: "It is my; opinion that she should go •back." "I'm not going back for any more black eyes!" And Pauline appeared to mean what she said; Before they left the court, counsel for defendant announced that he would see to it that (his client took out a prohibition order before he left the building. On this understanding, the bench refused to make an order.