The Loan of a Husband

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1437, 22 September 1905, Page 2

The Loan of a Husband

A Remarkable Case

Press Aesooiation.—Copyright. Sidney, this day. A rkharkaiilb oase is bain" heard iu the Equity Court, Luoy line is leekinß to havo sot nßido a dood of transfer of valuablo property to H. T. Henderson v and wife, alleging that it was obtained by mcnnß of threats of violence. The. plain* tiff's statements sot oat that Mrs Henderson, on the gtound of hor rnUconduot with : Henderson, followed her about, and publicly abused br. Sho entored her houso aoveral limes, assaulted and threatened to kill hor, and terrified her into executing the transfer, Tho plaintiff admitted liviug with Hondcrson as his wife. A numbor of loiters wero put in, indicating that she offered inducocionts to Henderson to leave his wife, Henderson, in the course of his evidence, admitted tbe relationship with plaintiff, and gave dotnils of the meeting botween his wife and plaintiff, wkoroat Mrs, Henderson doclnrod that she would make plaintiff pay dwr for the loan of her husband, and she damonded the house from pkuDtiff. Tho result of this meotihg was that the transfer was ■njado, His wifo subsequently told him she could manago better without him bb sho bad frightened a houso out of plaintiff. Tho defence'is o denial of threats and violence, and that the transfer was made with free will. Later, In correction, plaintiff admitted'living with Henderson, though not as his wife, Henderson simply admittel living wish hor,' i