Man Who Beat Wife With Rubber Hose Sent To Gaol For Month
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH. Sept. 20. Imprisonment for one month was imposed on Charles Neville Cole, shavemilker. of Puniho, by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when he admitted assault on his wife, Jean Winifred Cole. Evidence was given that Cole severely beat his wife with a rubber hose. He admitted doing so, but denied having struck her with his lists as alleged. Constable W. F. Antill in evidence that Cole, when questioned, stated that he beat his wife because she would not do as he asked her. Cole had been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a week on a similar charge in January, 1947.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23055, 20 September 1949, Page 7
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