MAN’S THREAT TO WIFE
LONDON, Dec. 20. ' A husband threatened to cut off nis wife’s head with a carving knife unless she ate some hedgehog which she had prepared for his supper. She ate some. At Leicester matrimonial court, when the woman alleged cruelty and sought a separation, the magistrates’ clerk was puzzled. .“I don’t know whether this constitutes cruelty or not,’’ he said. “Is a hedgehog edible?” Mr. H. G. Bennett, for the husband, said that in Buckinghamshire hedgehogs provided ■ a favourite dish. “I made her eat half so that her big. ugly sister should not have it”, declared the husband. The case was adjourned for further enquiry.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1942, Page 6
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