Perhaps a transcription would either confirm or eliminate this man.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223231011http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128684038"Half Starved."
FORCED TO LIVE IN TENT.
"My baby died when it was six weks old," said a young woman in the Divorce Court on Friday, adding: "Its death was probably hastened because I was half starved for several months
before it was born." Ruth Stevens (formerly Claxton), of Harris street, Pyrmont, asked the
Judge in Divorce (Mr. Justice Owen) to dissolve her marriage with Robert Stevens, to whom she was married at Sydney in October, 1921. She now alleged desertion.
"We went to Parkes to live after the marriage," said Mrs. Stevens. "My life wasn't happy, and my husband spent his money drinking and gambling."
NO BEDDING.
"When we couldn't pay the rent," she continued "we had to go and live in a tent outside Parkes. I had little food; I was half-starved. There was no bedding nor the ordinary comforts of life. He took my wedding presents and pawned them and then spent the money gambling."
Mr. Justice Owen found the desertion proved, and granted Mrs. Stevens a decree nisi, and directed Stevens to pay the costs of suit.
MINISTER'S DAUGHTER.
The marriage certificate disclosed that the respondent was a native of Bombay, India; that his father was an architect; and that Mrs. Stevens was a native of Brighton, England; and
that her father was a minister. It further disclosed that, at the time of the marriage the husband was a captain.
And the marriage
17344/1921
STEVENS Robert
CLAXTON Ruth
District St Leonards
and infant death
5870/1923
STEVENS Gerald
Father Robert Mother Ruth
District Parks
