UNEQUALLY YOKED

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12187, 26 October 1920, Page 4

UNEQUALLY YOKED

United Press Association. —By Elec trie Telegraph—Coi ~ ; ght. Received Oct. 26, 9 a.m. Sydney, Oot. 26 ' In the Divorce Oourt William Alfred Joseph Cross sought restitution of conjugal rights from Elizabeth Eleanor Cross. Petitioner, who twice during the war won the D.C.M., gave evidence that he had been a lay reader and eventually became ordained. Differences arose through his wife being a Catholic and be an Anglican. He hac given her no cause to refuse to live with him, but admitted that under extreme provocation he had struck her. Respondent gave evidence that at one time they lived in Dunedin, where her husband acted as a lay reader and subsequently was ordained. From New Zealand they came to Sydney. Witness said her husband frequently loft her without money or food and on many occasions cruelly treated her. She was, however, willing to live with her husband if he treated her as a wife, not as a slave, and discontinued his illtreatment. Judgment was reserevd.