AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE AND FATHER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2612, 25 January 1894, Page 3

AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE AND FATHER.

An episode with more than a spice of romance in it has just come to light in Auckland. A young Dunedin girl, whose mother still resides in the Southern city, and who is a tailoress by trade, a few years ago went to Melbourne, wheie she met a young fellow. The couple became engaged and eventually they were married. This was two years ago. The son worked with his father, who was a grocer. After a time the son and his wife went to live with the old man, then father and Bon began to quarrel, and next the two parted company. Finding work difficult to get in Melbourne the son went up country, the daughter-in-law going to keep house for the old man, taking her child with her, for by this time a little one had been born. On his return to Melbourne, about five weeks ago, the husband was astonished to find that his father and wife had disappeared, and his suspicions that all was not as it should be were awakened. Feeling anxious to know the Worst or best, and desirous at any rate of obtaining possession of the child, he set to work and traced the couple to Auckland. He then started off in pursuit, and arrived on Friday week. Scarcely had he got there when in walking up Queen street he espied his wife with a lady friend carrying his child, his father bringing up the rear. The whole party turned into a grocer's shop. The husband followed and demanded the baby, which was snatched up by the " lady friend." The old man interposed, was struck by the son, the wife fainted in her husband's arms, and the friend disappeared with the child. By and bye things cooled down, and the wife consented to go back to her husband. Lodgings wore taken at a boarding house in Queen street, and things appeared to go quite smoothly for five days, but on Friday both father, wifo and child again disappeared, The husband now says he has ascertained that a passage under an assumed name was booked for a southern port, that, so far as he cares, father and wife may go " rip," but he intends having the baby if he goes all over the world for it.