Context Note: Nevertheless, he appears to have remained at 133 Park Road until 1914 when he took the S.S. Lusitania from Liverpool to New York – ending up at Stratford, Connecticut, whence he never came back.
ASTON POLICE COURT.
MONDAY. – Before Alderman W. Evans (chairman), Alderman S. Edwards, Alderman F. Smith, and Mr. H. S. Yoxall.
Separated.
Ellen Susan Rhoda Wheeler, of 133, Park Road, Aston, summoned her husband Benjamin Wheeler, for persistent cruelty, and she asked the magistrates to grant her a separation order. – Mr. A. H. Adcock appeared on behalf of the complainant who stated that they had been married 24 years and there were four children, the eldest [Ada (Wheeler) Bosworth] being 22 years of age. Defendant had been frequently before the Court for assault and other offences. On Thursday last he turned the two younger children [Benjamin Wheeler (1893-1978) and William Henry Lingard Wheeler] out of the house, and when remonstrated with threatened to put his wife out, and subsequently assaulted her. He had often abused her before. – P.C. Rainbow deposed to being called to the house on Thursday, when he saw the defendant, who was drunk and threatening his wife. – The Bench made an order of separation with 5s. per week maintenance.
(Erdington News, Birmingham, 1st February 1908)
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