DESERTED ON HER HONEYMOON.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13701, 7 June 1912, Page 5

DESERTED ON HER HONEYMOON.

YOUNG WIFE’S SAD TALE

(Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, June G. thu tale of a young wife deserted on ■icr honeymoon trip was told iu the Police court u.i s morning on behalf of a fasiaouaoly dressed young woman, Marjorie Eeuiuecker, who pleaded "guilty” to a charge of obtaining money by means of valueless cheques. Her solicitor, Mr. Grundy, stated that ‘tale while back she came out to Mel'.'Oiirae on a trip with her husband, Victor Kemaecker, a London architect. They .map there in a boardinghouse for only a 10. trig., t, when her husband wept away to 'England with another woman,' leafing ner oiuy a little money which was banked in the Lnglish, Scottish and Australian bank ot Sydney. Tho deserted biide went to Sydney. Seeing that the other woman Jiad taken the name of Mrs Keiuaecker, ami Gut she was getting accounts run up ■•y the second Mrs Hco.ucckcr, she culled iierseU Marjorie "Eobiiison,’' tne latter being her husband’s second name. She • ■ad to undergo iu Sydney an operation tor nervous trouble, and later she left for New Zealand.

.vt tins point the narrative was taken u i* hliiet Dot. ctive Marsack, who said ti;at the young woman came to Auckland . the .Ualleno soma live or six weeks ago. She made the acquaintance of some of ui c otlieers during the voyage, and one ot them, Mr. (icorge Waller, cashed for her a cheque of i,TO drawn on the English, Scottish and Australian Bank of ydney. She put up at the Koyal Hotel, hut tell ill and had to go to the Woodside Private Hospital for an operation. Her hill ol Ah) 15s. at the Hoyal was paid bv cheque drawn on the K.S. and A. Bank.

■Hen she got better at the hospital she went to the chemist’s shop of Mr A. U. Hascoe and cashed another E.S. and A. .cheque lor .£ 12, .with which she paid fur her hospital treatment. These cheques she signed “.Marjorie liobiiison,’' and when Mr. Waller, on the Mahcno’s return trip to Sydney, presented his cheque ii was returned marked "No account. Consequently the accused young woman, who had gone to a private boarding bouse, was arrested. She possessed several trunks of very costly clothing, but her cash bad dwindled to 21>s. When she went to Mr Paseoc she represented that she had a letter of credit for a considerable sum, but no letter of credit existed. Mr Marsack turtiier slated that since the arrest the accused had beem cared for in the Door of Hope Home, but she had there taken up the attitude of a lady boarder, who was foreign to the place. Mr. Grundy, in putting forward a plea for mitigation under exceptional circumstances, stall'd that the young woman had influential friends at Home who had been cabled to, and restitution would b? made of t-lie money. Meantime, she - was ready to allow her costly clothing and jewellery to lio turned into money for the same purpose.

Accused, who was in a weak physical condition, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on, provision being made that she -should go In the Dour of Hope for twelve mo Alls (r r until released to enable ber to reach her friends), and conform witn the rules of the institution. She was taken away in a fainting state.