DIVORCE AFTER 49 YEARS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10362, 7 September 1922, Page 2

DIVORCE AFTER 49 YEARS.

AGED WIFE’S AMAZING STORY. ' A remarkable divorce case Came before Mr Justice Hill in the Divorce Court, in which the ! ages of’thh” ! petitioner and her husband were giv en as 69 and 72 respectively, The 1 marriage took place as long ago as 1873. ■ ■•■ ” ‘ «- ■ ;

The petitioner was Mrs Susannah'’ Black, of Lougwood, near Huddersfield. She said that in 1579, her husband brought into the housb a woman and said he was the causa of her condition". He told her that She ' was to look after the woman* but ; petitioner said she objected raar> tinids. Because of the woman’s presence her health began to suffer,-" but her husband said if she did not- ’ like it she could take herhook.” He made arrangements *' with the woman about the rent book, and the woman told her that she was the “missus” of the house, ’ and could throw her out. When her husband assaulted the petitioner, l she left* him. ' In the following year she got employment, and had been at work ever since. In January of this year she went ot Union Road, Warwick, where she found her husband living with a woman named Elizabeth Blackburn. . Mr John ,T. Sykes, a Huddersfield solicitor, said he went with . Mrs Black to Warwick and saw Mr Black, and the woman Blackburn. When he served the divorce papers on them, they told hini that they ;■ had lived together there for a long time. Tlnjy did not deny that they • had committed adultery, and Mr. Black, pointing to a framed photo- - graph hanging on the wall, said “That’s our eldest son, who was killed in the war.” Mrs Black was granted a decree nisi with costs.