Footballer’s Domestic Troubles.

June 1929

Mexborough and Swinton Times, June 21, 1929

Footballer’s Domestic Troubles.

The former Mexboro’ and Denaby footballer, Samuel Kennedy, who was described on the court sheet as a waiter, of Scunthorpe, appeared before the Doncaster magistrates on Saturday for having neglected his wife and child.

The wife, Winifred Kennedy, of 19, Tickhill Square, Denaby, said they were married in November, 1924, and had a three-year-old boy. They lived together until August 4th last year, when he packed his bags and left her, without saying where he was going. She believed he went to Shirebrook, as he had signed on for Shirebrook Football Club. He said he was not coming back, and she had not seen him since. Before he went away he had not spoken to her for six weeks. He had started stopping out at nights, and when she asked him where he had been he said it was not her business. He sent their son a birthday present, and herself a pound at Christmas, but nothing since, and her father had been keeping her and the boy.

In reply to Mr, G. S. Ward (defending), complainant said she was not willing to go back to her husband. He had left her four times previously, once when he went to play for Fulham.

Kennedy said he was employed as a waiter at a Scunthorpe hotel, but had received notice to finish his employment there. They had been previously separated by an order of the court, but lived together again for three months. They then had a quarrel, and his wife told him that if he left she would not care. He therefore left on that arrangement, and his wife knew he went to Shirebrook.

The Bench ordered Kennedy to pay his wife 15s. a week.