The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-08-23 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

PAINFUL CASE" AT BIRKENHEAD.  ried life had been unhappy, and that his wife had attempted to commit suicide through his al-treatment of her. She had left him on two occasions, but it WAS through the defendant interfering. It was true that the defendant had brought some furniture with her when she came to live with him after the death of her husband. •- It was not true that the picture belonged On Friday, at the Borough Police Court. to defendant, and the bill produced for Bdrkenbead—before Dr. A. C. E. }ISMS I the framing of two and Mr. G. P. Snape—Thomas Olendennin to this particular pi pictures did not refer , picture. of 67, Borough-road, summoned his daughter Helen Prosser for the unlawful detenQuestioned by Mr. Holden, complainant tion of some of his goods, including one i said he had threatened to shoot defendant's mirror, four chairs, a lamp, a photograph, fetherin-law he was under the impree, awn that he was paying attentions to the an insurance policy, and other articles. • Mr. Cecil Holden appeared for the defendant. plainant, and Mr. Sha espeare for the de- Ada Clegg, a lodger at 67, Borough-road, fendant, who denied taking any of coin. stated that she heard articles being put plainant's property. : into A furniture van about MI weeks ago. Mr. Belden in opening the case said that She heard Mrs. Buchanan, as she then the defendant had been married to a man was, giving orders for the disposal of the named Buchanan, who was killed in the war ; various articles. She had only been once In 1917 she came to live with complainant, :to the house since then, and on that occawho lost his wife in April. Complainant.; MOO she came back to fetch the cat (laugh. who had served in the Egyptian campaign t ter). The complainant had told her that of 18E4, and had also joined the Navy at his daughter had gone away, and she paw the outbreak of the war, was discharged that there were only two b6akets, a skeet owing to privations sustained on being tor- I and a quilt, one spoon, one knife and a pedoed. fie was now a rigger for Messrs. I fork left. Alfred Hee:tend while defendant was house- i Cross-examined by Mr. ShakesPeare, keeper for him he gave her £4 per week, ness stated that she knew defendant had and the lodgers gave her 12s. 6d, for ue.. some of her furniture in the house. She furnished rooms. He had always g,iven had heard complainant say that he would his wife the larger part of his income. He have gone to live with the deft/dant if had found that during the past few months she had gone away decently. his daughter was entertaining a middle-1 Mr. Shakespeare told the Bench that the aged man at the house at his expense, and case was one .or the County Court, and he remonstrated with her. Later he found it was his opinion that it Was a gross abuse that the man was married, but separated of the process of the Court. from his wife. He thonght the man had Mr. Holden: I object to that. It is a been paying attention to his daughter, but Perfectly legal proceeding to adopt, and my had since discovered that she had married client is perfectly justified in taking the his son. On July Ist the complainant went meesure he has done out as usual to his work, and on returning Mr. Shakespeare: Well, I repeat that it for dinner found that his daughter had is a gross abuse of the process of the left the house and taken the articles men- Court. tinned with her. He also found the. fol Mr. Holden: Well, that won't make it lowing note on the table:— true, anyway (laughter). "Dear Dad,—l am sorry to leave you, Mr. Shakespeare then proceeded to slate but circumstances fora* me to go. Tau that the case was one which arose out of will be better without me and any encum- .parental vindictiveness and sheer spite. be:ince,. Here is £1 to carry on with." Mrs. Glendenning had had a business of She had left him but one quilt, one her own, and had purchased many of the sheet, a knife, fork and spoon. She had household articles with her own money. also taken a gilt mirror, which had been With referenceto the insurance policy on purchased by complainant's late wee.ii complainant's life the defendant had paid small rocking chair, which had been the the premiums when her mother was unable complainant's since he was five years of to do AO, and when her mother died she age an arm chair which had been our- returned it to the agent, who had forchtised nine years ago, two ordinary chairs warded it to the complainant. and a life policy on complainant's lilt', Defendant stated that the mirror was which had been returned on the 20th inst given to her by her mother, who bad reA picture of the Scots Greys at Waterloo received it in lieu of charging for storage was also taken, and as it was complainant's of goods. She had ixit it over the parold regiment be was naturally attached to lour mantelpiece for her own use. She had it. A photograph of his wife—the only one no ordinary chaies belonging to the corein existence—was also taken, as well as a plaimant. She had taken an armchair nhich Limp, and a curtain with a brass red, had been given to her by her mother in Complainant corroborated Mr. Holden'4 payment for her board when the latter had statement, and added that he had carried been forced to leave complainant- The  _ the photograph of his wife all over the world, acnd he had said to defendant that she could keep the remainder of the articles if she returned that. Cross-examined by Mr. Shakespeare, coin plainant strenuously denied that his mar small rocking chair which she had was taken out of pawn by her first husband. Her mother had given her the ticket in 1912 because complainant was in the habit of smashing up the furniture. The two ordinary chairs aha had par