ENDS IN SEPARATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3446, 10 February 1912, Page 7

ENDS IN SEPARATION.

GISBORNE GIRL’S UNHAPPY marriage. A JOCKEY HUSBAND WHO WAS CRUEL. iSPECIAi TO TIMES.] '■ AUCKLAND, Feb. 9At the S.M. Court this mormng before Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M.. an at-tractive-looking young woman named Doris Neall stepped into the ui support of an application for a maintenance order against her husband A Frederick Neall. The .case had been before the Court previously, and Mu Kettle at onoe recollected th© circumstances. Mrs Neall stated that she In c been married in Gisborne in April, 1909. her age being, then 17. She bad tued to live with her husband who was a jockey, hut had been unable to, owing to his persistent cruelty and diunkeuness. She had two young eluldien, n o were*’living with her m_ respectable surroundings at Knigsiaiid • and she ■. to support herself and them by g S out dressmaking. The last she had heard of her husband was that be had gone to tlie Hawera races. Mr Kettle: I have heard a statement signed by the husband in which lie admits everything. This is a case in which an order must be made, ine parties were married at an early ag. order to get over an immediate diftcultv, and as often happened meiely got into worse trouble. I will grant an order for separation and the payment of 30s a week.