"JUST A TAP."
THE HUSBAND'S DEFENCE.
WEIGHT OF A BLOW.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. "It was just a tap with a stick arried."
There was a sharp divergence oi opinion among witnesses in the Magis trate's Court to-day as to the weight" of a blow which Alfred Ernest Craddock. ex-auctioneer, delivered to his wife Annie Craddock, in Kilmore Street last mght. The blow described by Craddock as a friendly tap," was given with a walking stick. Mrs. Craddock fell down in the street, but there were no mark* showing where she had received a blow. . I have always lived happily with mv wife, said Craddock. who was charged *ith unlawful assault. "Mv wife took ary hat off and threw it ever a fence I touched her on the back with mv stick. 1 didn t know she was down until I had walked some distance awav. I had two drinks yesterdav."
Craddock was fined £2. in default Tourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 88, 14 April 1927, Page 9
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