CARESSING A LADY SECRETARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 57

CARESSING A LADY SECRETARY.

Much interest is taken in Sydney in the suit for judicial separation instituted by Mary Stuart Patberson againsb Hugh Patterson, one of the best known dentists in thab city. The petitioner tbaled that her husband earned about £3000 a year. She was married to him in 1888, being at that time instructress in cookery at bhe Technical College, where the earned £400 a year. They lived happily for nine months, and then she found the respondent sitting in his business rdom with h's arm round the waisb of his lady secrebary, while her hef»d wa? en his shoulder. She did nob say anything aboub this because she was newly married and did nob wish bo cause trouble. Shortly afterwards her baby was born, and she found that the lady secretary had charge of- the house, and wed to drink. Afterwards, at Woolwich, her husband was very intimate with the eervan's, with whom he used to joke and laugh. In 1891, as a resulb of an operation, she had^to go bo England. On her return, as her husband did neb meet her, she went to his house and waited for him bill 12 o'clock. When she ran bo greet him he aeked why ehe had waited up for him. There was a housekeeper in bhe house at the time, and though she suggested bhab bhere was no need for such a person now, her husband refused to dismiss her, and sab by bhe housekeeper's bed wheu she was ill. After thab she lett bhe place. Petitioner also complained of acts of cruelty. The hearing has nob concluded.