A "MONSTROUS THING."

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1922, Page 4

A "MONSTROUS THING."

SALAMAN CASE AGAIN. WIFE ABRKSTKU IN BED. I RELEASED B V CHIEF .11ST he j fßy Telegraph.— Association.) I WKLLIXCTOX. this day. I Tlio final pha.-e of the Kcilaman ca-- ; n-n-ardiriK the custody of an Indian t-liiUi", i who by habeas, corpus wa- given to the 1 lather to lake car- of. wan before the j Supremo Court when iiii appeal wu* j made by I> i .-. '.vife. aynirir-t a u r | t ~{ ! attachment whk-h resulted in her arrest i and conveyance to Wellington, where she was cast into Point Halsueil pri.-uu. Tlie woman told a remarkable .-torv She said she took tin: child to til"! I father's riddance in Khyber Pa — Koad, I Auckland, to .jive it up to t ne father. The child screamed »> a- ;!><• mother took her fare" .veil of the child hi Auckj land that she asked her now divorced husband (<> le.r 1-,-r st.iy with the child j for the nigh). lie did~-o, and allotted i them a bedroom upstairs. Before she \ was out of bed on "the following mO nij infr detectives came and arrested her on a warrant frorii the Court at Wellington. I She. was takrn away from lier former I husband's ' under arrc~t ajv" J brought to Wellington, where she i.- stiii in the curtorlv of the prison official*. Counsel for Salainan staled that he wa ■. at Taumanniiii quite hy accident. TTo j saw the woman with the child there. I and explained to her that in leaving I Wellington she was yv.iltv of contempt of Court. He immediately wired to t!ie police at Auckland. Tlis Tlonr.r sa.id if the woman was in ja. house in Auckland it was n monstrous thinj; to arrest her under the circumstances. The Deputy-SnerifT's ofli.-er said the [woman was in bed with her child when j arrested. Both were taken 10 the poli'.-e I station. I His Honor ordered her release, and jsaid there hikd been undue hardne-?.