HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 52, 11 February 1913, Page 6

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

AUCKLAND, Feb. 7. Charles John Henry Mahon appeared at the Police Court this morning on charges that at Otahulm on Saturday lie attempted to commit suicide by taking Ivsol and that he assaulted his wife, Eva Ellen Mahon. Mr Singer, who appeared for Mahon, entered a plea of "Guilty." Senior 'Sergeant MacKinnon said that the accused and his wife were living at Otahulm, and during the night of Friday Mahon left his room and went out of the house. His wife at that time went out of his bedroom also and went into another room. When Mahon came back and found that his wife had shifted he went and asked her to go back to the bedroom. She refused, and he went away, but ail hour or two afterwards he went into the room whore she was and hit her on the head with some blunt instrument. The wife could not say what she was hit with, but the man said afterwards that it was a tomahawk. It must have been the back of the tomahawk. The injuries inflicted on the woman were not serious, and were, in fact, very mild. Mahon then went to the kitchen and took some lysol, and was found in an unconscious state later. He had borne a very high character, but there had for a very long time j been friction between him and his'wife. Some time before this she had left i home and been away for some time, but had returned home a week prior to the assault. Mr Singer said it was not desired to rro into sordid details, but for many i years the man' had nut un with conduct on the yar't 'of liis wife that not ! one man in » thousand would stand. He had frequently forgiven her unci taken her back, having done so only just before this occurrence. Dr. McDonald, who was called in to attend Mrs Mahon. said that her injuries {consisted of two small scalp wounds. Mr Eraser, S.M., taid that the p"!?ce had indicated that the trouble was largely of the wife's own making, but no matter how badly the woman failed to fulfil her wifely duties that could never justify an attempt on her life. Accused promised not to repeat the attempt at suicide and to go to Hamilton, where lie would be under his brother's superintendence. Prisoner was thereupon convicted and discharged of attempted suicide, and op the other charge he was convicted and ordered, to nay costs and to enter into his own recognisance of £IOO and obtain a surety of £IOO that he would keen the peace toward his wife for six months. "" j