A LIVELY SCENE

Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 8

A LIVELY SCENE

G TYING A HUSBAND !! A GOOD HIDING.” At Fitzroy Court yesterday {says Ho Melbourne ‘ Ago ’ of April 19) Matilda Hunter (fifty years) and, her married daughter, Lillis Allen (thirty-three years) ware charged with having assaulted John David Hunter, a wool clarser. Hunter gave evidence that when in. bed ho heard a noise as of palings being ripped off his back fence, and then, a noise 8-s of people rustling into the house. His bedroom doer was then burst open, ami ’his wife and stepdaughter rushed in and attacked witness most violently. They polled him on to the floor, and, while his stepdaughter (Allen) held him down his wife "hammered away at him.” His face was scratched with finger nails, his head was split open with a flower pot, and he was bitten by his wife. His nose was damaged during the assault. Witness had been living apart from his wife for some time and allowing her 30s a week. Evidence was given by Constable J. F. M'Gann as to tiro arrest of the women at their homo in Keelo street, Collingwood. Mrs Hunter, ho _ said, told him that sho " wont up to give her husband a good hiding, and ho got it.” Mrs Hunter denied that she had struck her husband with a flower pot. “ I may have used a china plate on bis head,” she said, “ but only in eclf-delenco when my daughter (Mira Allen) was attacked. Mrs Allen said that all sho did was to try and protect her mother. Mr H. Evans, J.P., chairman, said that if a man committed such'* an assault he would get twelve months without the option. As both defendants might have received M a certain amount of provocation ” they would be fined £5, in default a month’s imprisonment. Ho would allow •them twelve.months in- which to jgab.Hr* fee.. ' ' '