AFTER' 37 YEARS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15312, 13 August 1923, Page 9

AFTER' 37 YEARS.

The Lichfield magistrates heard an unusual applicalion for a separation order. Both the parlies were more than 70 years of age, the applicant being Mrs Knight, of Shenstone, and the defendant, Ambrose Knight, of Thompson Street, Bilston Married at Wolverhampton in 1876, Knight and his wife lived later at Liverpool, where he made the acquaint of an Irishwoman. The family moved lo London, and in ISS6 Knight persuaded his wife to visit friends at Oxford. On her return she found the home sold up, and, not having heard from her husband since, she presumed that, .he was dead. Three months ago she learned that lie was working at Walsall, and she saw him in court for the first time since he said good-bye lo her on Paddington Station 37 years ago. Meanwhile he had been living in Belfast with a woman who was Ihe mother of his six children. The wife was granted a separation order, the husband to pay her 10s a week.