HIS SUNDAY BEER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3583, 7 March 1914, Page 8

HIS SUNDAY BEER.

MAN’S QUARREL WITH HIS WIFE. [PRBBfI ASSOCIATION TKIEGUA^a DANNEVIRKE, March 0. James Mills, a laborer, who wanted to drink his Sunday beer on a Saturday night, was charged before the Magistrate to-day with assaulting his wife with intent to do actual bodily harm. On 18th October last accused went borne intoxicated. His wife then went and bought his Sunday beer. When sh(> returned accused said lie was feeling drv anil wanted a drink, but this was refused. He resented this and pushed Ins wife; she fell and broke a leg. She then crawled into the yard to"" get out of accused’s way, but returned to the house when her husband bad gone to bed and sat in the kitchen until he woke and lifted her into bed, where she remained until Tuesday, until a neighbor called in a doctor in the evening and she was removed to the hospital. Accused <1 ill not know her leg was broken until the doctor came, and the latter said his wife might never recover from the effects of the injury. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court lotsen tence.