WILL BREACH'S BREAK?

NZ Truth, Issue 1229, 20 June 1929, Page 10

WILL BREACH'S BREAK?

• — "■'■»■' .... .:'. ;■ WIFE'S ALLEGATIONS OF CRUELTY SHE LEFT HIM (Prom "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) , ' When Gladys May Breach found the picture of a girl m the pocket of her husband's coat it aroused her suspicions. ■• » She 'taxed her husband about it, but he believes m actions and not words, according to her. A KICKING and a thumping, the wife /^ alleged, was the only reply she got from him, and he made life so unbearable for her that she packed up and left him. The misdemeanors of Breach quite recently got him into trouble with the policeV and i for offensive behavior towards young women, and for using obscene language, he was fined £6. In support of her application for maintenance orders, Mrs. Breach, m a very tearful tone,-, told Mr. H. Pi Lawry, S.M., that her married life had been an unhappy ,one through her husband's persistent acts of cruelty towards her. 7 These, she said, amounted to kicking and hitting, while, en one .occasion, at, the height of a do- •' mestic wrangle, he had "threatened .'■:- to put a bullet through her,." 7 Two or three times a year she fell the vie'tim of his bad temper, and on account of his allegedly going: out with other women, she left him. v She did not tell him where she was going, but left a .note informing him that she was fed up "with this life." Counsel: Your . husband was chased off the place with a knife, so how do you expect that he can pay you maintenance before he knew where you were? The woman admitted that there had been a row m the house over a man named Stevenson coming to see her, . but she claimed that she and Mrs. Stevenson were friends, and that Breach had been present when Stevenson had called, and at times Mrs. Stevenson had been present also. .The magistrate informed Mr. Twyneham, the woman's solicitor, that the question of cruelty was a bit frail, and i if the woman had been justified m ieavrrig her husband, he had not had the chance of paying her'any maintenance. :■.".; If the husband wanted her back he could now see what was keeping her away. ■ ■- - : -v *7 The case was held over m an endeavor to effect a reconciliation.