HUSBAND IN DOCK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 3, 5 January 1938, Page 8

HUSBAND IN DOCK.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT. MARRfED IN DECEMBER, PARTED EIGHT DATS LITER ! Married only on Decernbee 4 co a 17-year-oid girl. who Left h;ai euriit >Lay*. ;ater and. went home no her mother. ! Basil Hodgson. labourer. a .red -50. snood j in tile tlocit in the Police Court : i.y I oa charges of assault ana mischief. Hodgsoa. tor whom Mr. EL C. Aekins I appeared.. pleaded not ioilty to x cnarxe ; ox assaulting hi.-- motner-in-law. Strait Ferry, and. go mm it ting mischief or wilfully damaging property, valued at £4 ] 13/. belonging to his wLfa's sister. Mrs. Tarry, La evidence, said her daughter was put out of the house by Hodgson eight days alter they were married. and since she had returned to witness' home Hxigsoa had called three crockery and s!a«sMn:r his '.vice'- clothI Lng and siloes with a knife. "Ou Deoemj ber -Zfr he called and wanted to -fee diet : : wire, but £ would noc Let him -ee her ; aa she was terrified of him." said Mrs. Terry. "He had a carving knife in his ! hand and canght me by the throat when , I tried, to stop him from going in no clie | room where- my daughter W'±-. I ! 1 restrained him and ha left the house." I Mrs. Beryl Lois Xodweli. a <la:i-hcer, I o'f the- previous witness, said Hodxson | deliberately smashed crockery and oshec : . articles which she had bought from her j sister. "He got a knife- and slashed ; every stitch ox elo thing belonging to his j wife —her frocks, overcoat and shoes. "* • witness- sai<L "My sifter hasn't got a : tiiimr that » whole.~ t Called; So- the- house; Constable Gaines | i said the accused had left before he got 1 ! there-. ~S saw the bouse and it was a j I shamb!es. ~ said the constable. "There j i were smashed crockery and other thing' • i everywhere, and clothing was cut and : slushed."* 1 Constable Thompson gave evidence of ! arresting Eodfison on warrant in. ic- , tona Street on. January 31. j Wife's Visit ta. GaoL 1 i Mr. A p It-inn alleged that it was a case f«# a TTTfI." marrying' the whole family. ! : EEis mother-in-law and Mrs. iSodwell ! | were against Hodgson. and Mrs. Terry | ' had refused to allow Mia- wife to see him i when, he went to her house to- try and j : make it. up after they had had a tiff, j EEtHfgson was not aware of the change j of ownership of the- property. When he I smashed it up he thought it was his lowii- Since he had been in prison on remand his wife., who was supposed to , :be terrified or had visited him in : ga«L "TThey always do that r " said Mr. Hunt. known, a woman with two black eyes presented to her by her husband doing the same thing." (; Lai ighter.) Hodgson, in evidence,, admitted that ; he was to- blame in the tirss instance--He had gone to try and see his wife 1 to .see if she would make it up, but her j mother refused to let Tnm see her. [ "There would' have been no trouble-," ' ', he said, "only that my wife's mother . and sister were always throwing up my ] : p£bS& Mr. Hunt : Ofe, you. haare a past,, then t —Yes. hot I have been doing my best , these last two years. Mr. X<*lt-rnn lid that although he had . been: in trouble previously Hodgson's ' list was not a very had one. The Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes said he knew Hodjzson. who called on hrm a few months ago and complained that ' !he <ftd not seem to have a grip of him seM. "I tfrfnk he's a very sick soul and * case for examination by a psychiatrist." said Mr. Hughes. "I agree with you.*' remarked the magistrate, who remanded Tii-m for