CANED BY HIS WIFE.
• — I Described as "a creator of ladies' fashions, with a business in t!i e West End," a man nam— .Sergeant appeared In Big-gate Tollce Court to answer a summons issued -by his wife. Mrs. Sergeant, who wanted a separation, complained that her husband had a passion for goif and neglected everything for the links. He had twice assaulted her, and each time she "thought ber end had come." Sergeant asked his wife if she had not beaten him with a cane, and -she explained. Two years ago, she said, her husband ■proposed to beat a child with a cane, and she wrested It from him. H e then hit the child with his hand, and for every smack the child received she Save Sergeant a blow with the cane. Sergeant attributed all ill, business cares to "the trouble at home," which prevented his concentration 'on h_ 3 work. (Before ho married he was never out of temper. A separation order with £> a week alimony was granted. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 290, 4 December 1920, Page 19
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