AGAINST A WOMAN'S GOOD NAME.

NZ Truth, 15 March 1924, Page 8

AGAINST A WOMAN'S GOOD NAME.

■ ■ » (From "Truth's" Hamilton Rep.) Calling at the house of Thomas and Lorna Pierce one day recently at Ongarue, a mill hand named Charles Carroll told Mrs. Pierce- that she had "put Curtis's pot on to the John Hop at Ongarue," and he then proceeded, to abuse her m language . most foul. He threatened to tell people things about her which she declared to be falsehoods, and, addressing her husband, told him she was "no good," and that he ought to leave her. She laid an information against him to the police, and when charged with using foul and abusive language, Carroll pleaded not guilty. In answer to a question complainant said that Carroll was a frequent visitor to her place, but only when her husband was at home. She had on one occasion asked a Mr. Haines to stay with her until her husband returned, as she was afraid there was going to be "dirty work." There "was not-a' woman around the mill, she declared, who could call her name her own. Defendant was convicted and ordered, to pay £5 and costs.