Goode No Good To Evelyn

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 4

Goode No Good To Evelyn

jj (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative.) . g j If too, many marriages .turned out as did that of Evelyn | I Louie Goode, after she took her vows with William John j | Goode m 1915, most girls would prefer to view the altar of | 1 matrimony from a safe distance. • . 1 | According to Evelyn, when she asked Judge MacGregor g | at Dunedin recently to apply judicial seyeretice to her shatter- | | ed bonds, William had turned out a dud. J | Instead of Goode, a salesman by occupation,, squaring his | 1 shoulders for the burden of his marital responsibilities, it §| | seems that Evelyn did most of the bread winning. | | In April, 1925, they journeyed to Christchurch, but as | I Goode was out of work, he sent his wife and one of their two | | offspring back to Dunedin. The wife got work and kept her- | I self and kiddies. ' §§ I No trouble was experienced m finding Goode when the time | 1 for serving him with divorce papers arrived, for he was safely m 1 tucked away m an Auckland prison-camp, where he was pay- § I ing the penalty for an offence of false pretences. | | Last January respondent wrote to his wife asking her to j 1 remit arrears which had accrued under a maintenance order, g 1 and further suggesting that Evelyn take full advantage of the | j law, as he had met someone else who had been very kind to him. j | On the grounds of desertion, Evelyn obtained her. divorce, | 1 to be made absolute m three months, and the custody of the | 3 children. ■ H iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinin™™™™™™

turned to the officer of the court and said: "Tell me m front of these two witnesses that you'll punch the face ° "He rushed me," said McDougall, ""Ot ho]d of me and shook me. My sisters-in-law got hold of him. He got hold of me a second time, and then 1 went away." That was all that happened, concluded McDougall. Under crossexamination by lawyer Hubble, who .ippeared for Campbell, he went on to say that Lawyer Leary and Campbell, between them, had broken up his home. He denied that he had ever made the same allegation m regard to Magistrate Hunt, but he had written to Sir James Parr and Sir Robert Stout, and petitioned Parliament. "Nothing was done about any of these complaints?" asked the lawyer for the defendant. "I got no justice at all," retorted McDougall. / Further, it was disclosed that ne had communicated with the Auckland Law Society regarding his alleged grievance, but no steps had been ' The complainant admitted that he had been proceeded against for disobedience of a maintenance order on which he had paid nothing because he alleged the order was illegal. "Yet you went and paid the money that morning immediately after you left the court?", suggested Lawyer "Yes," replied McDougall, "I got the money and paid." "You say that Campbell broke up your home?" was the next question. "I do," was the answer. McDougall said he considered Campbell and Leary a couple of conspirators, though he had been allowing his wife £4 a week prior to the order of the court being made, which was only for £2. He conceded that he had been thinking of his grievance for years and that it worried him a fair amount. ■ "Campbell didn't hit you?" enquired the lawyer. "No, he didn't hit me," was the reply "he didn't really put me out. He said: 'Get out of here'!" McDougall's sister-in-law gave her

legation that he was a home-breaker, Lawyer Leary said that far from that being the case, he had done all that was possible to bring McDougall and his wife 1 together, and for that matter so had Campbell, but McDougall had made things so impossible for his wife that she was compelled to act again. The man had consented to an order against himself. McDougall, who meanwhile had taken his place at the clerk of the court's table, and was leaning on it while he gazed at the bench, listened Avithout comment, and when £2 2s. costs "was given against him he made a wry face, left the court with his two sisters-in-law and drove away m his car.