NEIGHBOURS JURY.
NOVEL w\y of solving domestic TKOEI-ES. New York, April 5 A novel method of settling matrimonial troubles lias been adopted hy the Rev. W. \V Brutik, pa-tor >1 the Methodist. Episcopal Church of Liverpool, a village in New loi k States, and li's wife As a result Ml ,ii,| Mrs Brutik have separated, nod a financial provision has been made and accepted by tile wife, all on the recommendation of a selected jury of throe neighbours. When the trouble came Mr Bnmk and his wife wedt to the village magistrate, not a.s aai otfieia.l hut. as a friend, and, asked him to appoint a committee of time to consider a way mil. of their difficulties. They agreed u, hind themselves to the coinnPtf.use’s decision. The. magi'd rate named a. commit tie Which ihcidod that, it would, ho best for Mr Bnmk and bis wife to separ- • ils. II awarded the wife .IMOO and custody of I lie youngest child The decision satisfiedi the witv, who tft for her brother’s homo in Florida ,wlli her child, while Mr Brutik and I |,e two elder children remain in Ibc' parsonage
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2498, 12 June 1920, Page 6
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190NEIGHBOURS JURY. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2498, 12 June 1920, Page 6
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