CHASED WIFE WITH AXE.
LABOURER "WELCOMES" POLICE. GAOL FOR OBSCENE LANGUAGE. When charged with having been drunk in King Street, Newmarket, on Saturday and having used obscene language, Roy Johnston, a labourer, aged 28, told the magistrate at the Police Court this morning that he did not remember anything of Saturday's happenings.
Constable Norton said a little girl stopped him in the street and asked' him to go to King Street. Before he got to accused's house, Johnston's wife complained that her husband had been chasing her around the yard with an axe. ''As I went into the gate I was met by Johnston, who welcomed me by using the obscene language, added the constable. •
"I sec by your list that you have had a month's imprisonment before," Mr. W. IT. Woodward told" Johnston. "Now you will get another month."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 10
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