ASSAULT STORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 27

ASSAULT STORY.

WIFE'S CHARGES. DIVORCE ALLEGATIONS. i INTERVENTION BT CROWN. (l"r<«in < • 1 1r Own <"V>rrc«pnndmt.) S , October 21. pel 1 ' k.i !'li' :i I Iryn t i'UW of it hu-liund's r rin-'I \ »ri" ii ;n|r' in the Divorce Court (lli- M'"'' M'~. I!" >«"-t t H Olllioirt, HJJl'd '•lir i'! In I'll 'jt.i ill i'il ii decree iii 11 11 ..pi mi ii'i 1 ' i 1 .'I. :i la il \vii v fill 11 lo yce. . i i I" '7 "ii t lie Alumni nt' hi< j,; ill.', i \v >li M.il I'.: ii' 11 1' i l.i'i t . I.ill t ||,' ( p.. i -*.-!t t"t' ,i»l\i'il tor tin' rptciMiioii ~]• til.- 11 ■ I I'l' I'll t lie Ui'oiinil that nm t i'i in I I."'- 1 i-'Mii-f rtii njr Mi's. Dubois' ~millii-1 h.i'l ii"' 1 ii*cit before the t ,111rt ■ ll'' ved tlmt. Mrs. Dulioi*. dur - h i i.i.> ml iiin'i'%tlic decree, had ii.iiittiii t i-il inliilU'iy with John Float rii.iifii\irl | >ii." i- .i 11 in it t eel the cliiirfr." and „ n ,| I'p. Me.l li.ni I "lil Hi' r liii-lianil .i lii nit U ]'1111.i•!| li.nl | ii r\intini x |ini|n>*eil nisir- :.. Ii 1 -In- -wiiil. Sin- stated that „ n ,. W.i .. iii ill tn Ihilio'm in Si']>t . 11. i■ i i .: 1 i 7 ll.' had saiil lie iliil not wnii ■ . -j. I niii i-1 i i'i I ami tlii'l" were 11. <| m' 111 ,i iull •11 i'i 11 which nearly alwav-ciiu-il iii I" 1 I' 11 -1 m nil )jii iiijf In-r a Muck t . v , i inn' in' I. cat In r with a Mirk, Mir nil..-;, il, anil nt other times hit her on (li,. |hi i'ltf.i< 1 with a cup and u frying jmii. >lie »a « c\|iccliiir a child nt the time and her luinliaml took her to hospital telliiiu her to »ny that she had been knocked over by n motor-cycle. Aiming other extraordinary eliargeH a 3*l iI) !*t her hunliand made by Mrs. Uulinis were the following: — Ho punched her on her nose, breaking It, niul kicked her. He threw a hammer at her. He threatened to kill her und her dittiirhter. One Sunday during an nrjiuineiit while slie was preparing dinner he threw methy luted npirits over her, remarking that ho was fed up with her and would jjet rid of her somehow. Her dress catight fire and whe wan Imdly ■enrred on the shoulders and under the •Tins. She took off the eont of her costume in < oiirt and showed the near* to the ■ Mlll c.

FTrr liii»l*iuil. »lie «nid. hud a territile huliit. »In n annoyed, of dr«{{(irhi(f lior on thi- floor !>y the htiir. He onoe tried to jrninrc hei' eye out with hin foot. He *l*o H*ked her why «he didn't die. She thi* would he the bent way out inrl took | ii>i >m. and wa* formally *entenred at the time to the ridinjj of the Court.

Mi". Dubois said slip left her hunhand In August, 1030, when flip found him with Mflrjnrle Herbert. After *he met Pi ii hp 11 ho asked her to marry him «ntl wanted her to stay with him till then, hut she asked him to wait for two monthuntil she got her divorce. "Hp got very nasty then," said Mr*. Dubois, "and assaulted me one night •• I was coming out of the picture*. Next day he rang up »ny husband and told him everything." Pinnell, she told the Court, had since been married to someone else.