COULD NOT READ, SAYS PLAINTIFF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 10

COULD NOT READ, SAYS PLAINTIFF.

SEEKS TO RECOVER MONEY FROM WIFE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 21. Before Mr Justice Reed, Charles Islington Subritzky admitted that in 1914 he handed over all his property to his wife under pressure, because he thought he was dying. His wife, Jennie Subritzky, recently obtained a separation order against him. Plaintiff now sought to recover the property and moneys he had given her. Plaintiff said that he passed only standard 2. His wife did all his business. In 1913 he received £1275 as a third share from the sale of a vessel. He was very ill, and his wife received the money. When asked if she had banked it in his name she replied: “No, I have been too smart for you.” The doctor told him that he would not live more than six months, and, through his wife’s persistency, he made over to her all his property. Trouble began later when his wife was keeping a boardinghotise and his wife ordered him off the premises. He subsequently signed a statement of apology admitting that he had been drinking excessively, and had ill-treated his wife, and he made over to his wife all his property to do what she liked with. He could not read, and had no idea what was in the statement. He had not a penny left in the world. (Proceeding.)