HUSBAND ARRESTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 12

HUSBAND ARRESTED.

ALLEGED ASSAULT ON WIFE. A PONSONBY AFFAIR. REMANDED FOR MEDICAL """ OBSERVATION.

"May I say nothing?" said Richard Jamea Martin (45), when he etood in the dock at the Police Court this morning on a charge of having assaulted his wife bv catching her by the throat and punching her on the face and body.

"You may," said Mr. W. R. McKean. S.M., who took the plea as one of not guilty.

Martin w«/? greatly agitated and ner VOUS.

On being called, Mrs. Martin was not anxious to give evidence. She mumbled that her husband suffered with hip nerves, but added, on being pressed, that her husband struck her on the face.

Constable Frain, who was sent for by the wife, said that late last ni<rht he went to accused's house in Grundy Street, Ponsonbv. All was quiet, but he waited outside for some time. He then heard accused punching and thumping his wife. Accused then chased his wife outside the house and down the street. He was clad only in his pyjamas, and on being arrested refused to dress himself, preferring to go to the police station in his night attire.

Martin was remanded for one week for medical observation.