BURNT WITH IRON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 106, 7 May 1935, Page 8

BURNT WITH IRON.

WIFE'S ALLEGATIONS. COUPLE SINCE RECONCILED. "They may perhaps continue to live linppy ever after, although this does seem to be a case of marrying in haste and repenting at leisure," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court this morning when Thomas Edward Martin, aged 29, boilermaker. was charged with assaulting his wife, Ruth Margaret Martin, on April 20. Martin, for whom Mr. K. C. Ackins appeared, denied the charge..

The evidence showed that the parties were married in the Friendly Road radio studio on April 5 and that Constable J. J. Quirke arrested the husband on Anzac Day. Mrs. Martin alleged that licr husband, following a quarrel, had struck her and also burnt her right forearm with an electric iron. Admitted to the hospital on April 25, suffering from burns and n, large lump on her forehead, she spent a week in the institution. Since her discharge she had returned to live with accused.

Martin denied his wife's allegations and said that when she had locked him out of the house ho obtained a ladder and entered through a window. In doing so ho had pjushed everything off the table where the electric iron was resting. 110 could not explain how she came to have her arm burnt. He denied that he struck her.

"Ho does seem to have been barricaded out of his own home, as he had to obtain a ladder to get in again," said Mr. Wilson. "I think some violence was used during a senffie."

Martin was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months and to pay the costs of the prosecution, £1 9/.