A LION-TAMER’S LIFE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 306, 17 March 1928, Page 12

A LION-TAMER’S LIFE

SACKED IF TALKS TO WOMEN . WIFE GETS A DIVORCE William Lindo is a lion tamer, and has often sent the king of the jungle through the fiery hoop in Wirtlis Circus. and other big shows. Recently he filled a new role, says the Sydney “Sun”— that of respondent in a divorce suit —instituted by Louisa Jane Lindo (formerly Spicer), to whom

he was married on March 14, 1911, at Leura. Mrs. Lindo, a native of Mudgee, alleged against Lindo, a native of England, desertion for three years and upwards. ‘My husband,” said Mrs. Lindo, in reply to Mr. Fraser, “is a lion-tamer, and is at present attached to St. Leon’s travelling circus. He was served with the petition at Morpeth. I first met him at Katoomba. He was then connected with a picture show, and after our marriage we were associated in a boarding establishment. “At that time he said he was going to join Wirths Circus, and that he was going to take several cages of lions from New South Wales to Melbourne.” Having lost sight of her husband for some time, she visited the Hippodrome, and saw him outside the building. “He Seemed Surprised.” He seemed very surprised and was more surprised when she informed him that she was going to join him. Pie said that he didn’t think she could stand the travelling of a circus life. Then, said the wife, he broke off and added: “Don’t you know that we are not allowed to talk to women; we are liable to get the sack; in fact, a man did get the sack yesterday”! Mrs. Lindo informed the Judge that Captain Lindo used to refer to Wirths caged lions as his “pets.” “Pie went to Melbourne with the lioness and her cubs,” she said, “and I didn’t see him for a considerable time.” “When I did see him, I asked him for money. He answered, ‘l’ve none; we circus chaps are always short of money and have to borrow from each other.’ He cut the conversation short by saying, ‘1 must go’! ” Mrs. Lindo is a lady of substantial build, and as it was with difficulty' she made her way into the witness box, the judge informed her that she might give her evidence from the Bar table, which she did. Mr. Justice Owen granted Mrs. Lindo a decree nisi, and Captain Lindo was directed to pay the costs of the suit.