HUSBAND'S INFATUATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8163, 10 November 1904, Page 2

HUSBAND'S INFATUATION.

refuse]) to speak to his wife jjor four months. The wife ipf John Sidney Milward, a manufacturers clerk, of Sparkbrook, told a pathetio stojy of marital unhappiness at the Birmingham Police Court on September 9. j ' | Mrs Milwsjrd said that they were married in 1900, and for three years lived happily. Six months ngo she complained to her nusband about his infatuation for a barmaid, and the result vas that he had never spoken to her from April 27 to that day. " I went on my knees to him and said, ' Jack, will you speak to me?' and he did not answer. I said, ' Jack, do «peak. We can't live a life like this.' He only replied : 'If an angel came down to earth and pleaded I would not speak to you. I think of you as a thing unborn. My heart is perfectly stony.?' When her second child was born she appealed to him to speak to her, as his neglect was telling on her mind. He only mumbled i a few words. I It appeared that the defendant had turned his wife tout of the house at midnight, . beaten her, and left her, but he returned to sleep in the house when the summons for desertion was issued. The Magistrates concluded, therefore, that desertion could not be proved, and dismissed the case.