ROMANCE COMES LATE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16984, 7 March 1923, Page 4

ROMANCE COMES LATE.

AN IMPULSIVE WOOER. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Anders Bey Anderson was charged that or. February 21 he had threatened to shoot Elizabeth, the wife of William Henry James Simpson. The complainant. Simpson, asked that Anderson should be bound over to keep the peace. .it was alleged that Simpson had been away in the country, following his calling as a cook, and during his absence Anderson wooed and tried to win bis wife and in moments of loneliness had sent her irresistible “ billet® doux.” The following note had been delivered to Mrs Cooper : ' 1 Sequestered in our calm domestic bower. We sat together as a man and wife, 1 in manhood prime and you a matron in your fullest flower; You hummed a little song and nestled near, As side by side we went to our My arm about your waist. 1 whispered Edith dear and pressed My lips on your mouth’s full rose. The sacred sweetness of our short wedded life Breathed the Kiss if you were my wedded wife. Don’t let anyone break the sacred bond between you and I, but let Jim go and come to me. —Andy.” \\ hen Simpson returned from the country, it was stated, Anderson, sent jthc following epistle to Mrs Simpson : Don’t go with Jim. Let him go on his own. You know that we promised to look after one another for life. J will keep my part and do my best for you. \Vill you do the s^ame for me?—Lovingly Andy.” . The magistrate read the letters, and, gazing at the slim form of Simp.son and the bulky form of Anderson, said, “ What a pity the sizes of the men aren’t reversed. Simpson said that he had been away in the country, and on his return his wife complained that Anderson had been molesting her. Mr Thomas: Is this woman really your wife? -Certainly she is. T married her three years ago. Has your wife any failings ?—Well, she does take a glass of beer. Edith Elizabeth Simpson said she had known Anderson a few weeks, and she first met him in the Zetland Hotel, where she had called for refreshment. Since that day he had followed her up and down. She had had him arrested for molesting her. but nothing came oi; the charge. Later Anderson had threatened to shoot her unless she left her husband. He called her a number of dirty names. At the time he was neither drunk nor sober. Mr Thomas: When did you last have a. meal with Anderson ? T can’t remember. Was it Thursday last?—-Ob, yes. We had one at the Britaunica Restaurant. Mr Thomas submitted that the information should be dismissed because the woman showed she was in no terror of her life because she had shared a meal with Anderson after the shooting threat had been given. The magistrate held that Simpson had. mistaken his remedy, and he advised him to take hi.s wife with him when he went into the country again. She would he away from the drink then, he said, and also away from the attention of fat. undesirable old men. The information was dismissed.