A SAD STORY OF DOMESTIC INFELICITY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10707, 2 September 1896, Page 2

A SAD STORY OF DOMESTIC INFELICITY.

A fejt days back we- (Wanganui Herald) mentioned thai an injured husband had discovered bisemnt wife and her knighterrant in this towb r and had pit a head on th,e latter, who is Ww in the hospital undergoing repairs.. „,A wor?e osie of women a frailty and man's depravity baa seldom" been - expeßed. The facts, a» related to us by the injured husband are* briefly.as follow :— fle.lqft his wife, and four children in Taranaki whilst be went to tbe, Aucklaadl goldfielda to- Beek work; asking a man named Br&tcb to iu^a^bit of woodP occasionally for the. woman till he (her husband) couM wbqV for her and the children. -i Breach' readily promised to do so, and no dottbt'l^thia i way ingratiated Mmself with the la<|y;; l^jftsßtfd 1 noon got a good position in a miue near Coromandel, and sent bit wife' fiifctb' pay her^tid the children's expenses up to him when he had built and f umii&,dd'a'c6mfbita;b I le home for then*. WjKft. faftf arrjved the htnbahd felt tbera was» lacfeof cordiality and affection jo the wife's manner, which wa» conBtraroed and colcr'and Tery different to. whaii it hadtjlwayf |j6eri prior to his departure jty.sean* Jdf employment. A casual remark., by . qne, of the .children overheard by the' hitherto unsuspecting husband threw a new aa&balelulligbJb on the wife's altered demeanour, a» it «onvnced her^orfl jafiB<rajiwfcer that the lady had been, cttjc terma^f .'improper intimacy * •- , ■ „ This /naturally led to a breach of thetranquillity that should exist in every wel» ordered home, as when the lady was- taxed* with her infidelity jshe admitted the tfatb of child, bafc ateev^^ tb^ ; >h^,«JSthing wrong in her^onductinntb^tliß "gwiireman who> came to cut up^|BitMf^»6a^or her ocbad alloVbtfio } hiiht cocbs to her chamber huBbairf), W a* f gowg!^tkxWfwith wrong doing' on juch^^lenderwo^o&*,>hU >i», aot'go^i .".t^pfay.tn l^ &r4«nyinore,r but would take herself and the children off again. ■ r./t-na •.. « ' The husband triel to patch tip ft peace f.or the sake' of Mft""ybung ehildran, of whom he is,p,asaiioo^tely fond, and thought he had done 1 ao, -bat one evening shortly afterwards when ha oamd home from his work after^a long day's toil, he found the place stripped and'&npty. Had -a: blajt:; prbiriaturely exploded in the mine he coi^d ha.re been aior» stunned, but he gradually came to his Bensea ,ifid !/ihe full knowledge of bis domestic troubles. he was, bvfc grief was hw'strotagest emotion, as fas loved the ewing^woman with all her faults, aa prior to? this he had never had cause tf> k doubt her,sdelity t Tor his^childrgn >(s affection wm so strong* fhat he,was, ( prepared to overlook all and take the truant back -to hit hearth if not his heart, provided sho would come homs\tfith« fche'Jifctle ones. , Bpt be had to find themjjirst, atad this to a poor working- man', is not an easy task, m travelling QoaUjmobJßy,' of which he had littl^jhaying sent his wife all his savings to'keep'ber.aad the children until he had a ;Kome fotthem^indio pay their expeaißes up fo him who'd.' V W Was ready to receiv* C 3; ,, (?(j „; ... '• ,As 8?on,»aB I h«\ ( coul,d' scrape up the required Junds,,the gorrewfui feusbandjand fond, fatter Btarted, off-to" find the false wife and her unfortunate ohildren. At NewrPlymSuthlhe gd^tidingg of them, and found-that J .they Jttad' stayed there in the same 1 boarding-house «s Breach, who repreaonted himself/ asrthe lady's brother, and cuflfcdtha children for not addressing him as « Uncle !", »sAt HaWera they wera still passing and Mster. but afe Wanganui tjhe s :^Qjas^aiQ3''&und them in * jSnjall' cottage" paßsjcg 'under an assumed ! i^S'Mfe seduoer'a throaty 'a"ad ) .snake.^tn f e._l^6 / .' l briii of him, as som» men would have done, as he did not think the fellow worth going to gaol about ; so he did his bett to persaade the woman to go back to her proper home for tWsak* of the children, but found her obdurate, > although she had by ths time disco verod ' the baseness of the villain to whoie wiefcad ! wiles 'flher'had lent a too willing ear. •Thi's 'fjbllow Had spent all' her money,, and actually 'pawned the rings, iOfE hep fiogew, but still she refused leave him r f orreasons'which' her almost liearfc-broken hnsbaud suspects will 'become' apparent later on. After vainly entreating heron three- or .four- occasions to leave her paramoui, and return with the children, the husband threatened to take the latter ":? a yj, them id ,b Tespeot«bl« home, jat .which the .woman becam* hysterical, and vowed that if they were taken from her she would go straight to the rivQp f *nd ,drowa herself. This staggered .her. husband, who did not want to cause her to make away with herself. • At. this juncture the cause of all their trouble approached the injured husband, and, in a threatening manner, told him ihat"he,"Bad listened to enough of hia "whimng. 'arid thafcif' he did not dear out efhis^&rittibur's)' p i ace he woald y^ him', j , " i:This_wte r the l lastjtraw on the camel'n tapkj.; a^d: . before, the of bii apmesfi^ happin«ps knew were he was, his^face .was Deing pounded into a jelly the iron fist of enraged husband, who dealt out punishment with sUoh cyolon* orapidUly'Tiifd pledge-hammer force that 'khdirempiehfc thereof (who is repttted to •be-a-bitdfa fighting man) haof all the fight ka<»cked r i>ut of him in one long punistiingTOtrad, and fell in a senseless Jheap at the feet of the man whose domestic happiness he has mined and in view>t>f the' woman who gave up so much »£or fat pitiful scoundrel. »?'-Bpeaeh>irstill in the Hospital, and will no doubt' think twice before he' again -break|up another man's home, at he has (IfSriitliy bitter experience that even Husbands' 'Ci'nnot be wronged with impunity, tier-threatened with a hiding by A boasting gay Lothario whose vile con-dUot-iias (wrecked a hitherto peaceful ibbmet and;the .lives of its inmates. 37;8uchia fellow should be branded and /shunned as a moral leper by every rightthinking person in -the colony, and the sooner he js made to understand this the better, ifwill be for society at large.