A TRYING HUSBAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8866, 17 July 1907, Page 2

A TRYING HUSBAND.

And his strange Delusions, Per Press Association Auckland, July 16. The wife of James MeNed, tinsmith, residing at St. Helier’s Bay, applied to-day tor a separation order, the grounds being that he had become too dangerous to live with. According to, tho wife’s story McNeil had become possessed of strange and fearsome fancies,’ one of the most abiding being the conviction that every room in the house hod a phonograph in It. He also went in for a great deal of dumb show suggestive of gruesome happenings, his favourite feature being a pantomimic performance of cutting out her tongue, occasionally substituting her throat as the field of operation.! Three weeks ago she had been obliged to flee from the house and take up her abode with her She was making the application on medical advice. Mr Brookfield, who appeared for applicant, said defendant got up one night at midnight and cut a hde m the roof, putting his head through it and surveying things below in a threatening manner. McNeil: Nothing of the sort. The wife objected to smoking in the bedroom so I just went up and cut a hole to allow tho 1 smoko to escape. Mr Alexander explained that ho represented tho man’s employers, Harvey and Sons, who gave McNeil the _ best of character as a sober and industrious workman. Ho had been given a holiday lately as it had been considered he was run down. Tho man was in a state of nervous debility and wanted a spell. His "Worship decided to let the case stand over for a month.