WIFE ASSAULTED
One Month’s Imprisonment For Maori A Maori, David Waitoa, aged 35, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment when he appeared yesterday before Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, on a charge of assaulting Maud Waitoa, his wife. Mrs. Waitoa bad requested that tin' charge be dropped, said Senior-Sergeant G. J. Paine in the course of the prosecution, but as the police had laid the information this could not. be granted. Mrs. Waitoa had been in hospital several weeks, said Senior-Sergeant Paine, and went on to describe accused as “most brutal while under the influence of liquor.” X-ray photographs revealed no fractures, but Mrs, Waitoa had received black eyes and bruises from kicks and punches. She was blind for many days and was “In a frightful state when the police saw her.” Accused was on bail at the time of the offence for a previous assault on his wife.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 135, 4 March 1941, Page 2
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152WIFE ASSAULTED Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 135, 4 March 1941, Page 2
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