The Way to Treat a Drunken Husband.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 264, 19 January 1888, Page 3

The Way to Treat a Drunken Husband.

Tlio Dubbo Dispatch, N.S.W., of the ■lth ult. has the following account of a husband-beating 1 incident: —An amusing affair lias occurred gt Hay between man ;uid wife. A irian, it is alleged, beat his wife, and she took out a warrant against him. For some time he kept away, but recently came to town and went to his wife’s place in a state of liquor. ITis wife tied his hands behind his back, Stripped him naked, and they- beat him with' a rope and a whip. Then she painted him red, and whipped him out. ft] to informed the police, who took him in charge, and he was sent to gaol by the Bench for assaulting his wife. The following is the wife’s evidence :—“ I was lying down on my sister's bed when lio came into the bedroom, i, exclaimed, •‘Hullo ! tv-hat do you want hero !•’ He then said, ‘ If you ain’t coining out of tnis house I have come to give you a good hiding.’ 1 said ‘No you don’t,’ and got olf t.ho hod and seized him by the neck. I then threw him back on the bed and tied bis two hands behind him with a handkerchief. I took a strap and a piece of rope (hat were on the iioor and tied his met to his hands, f then told him to take off his clothes, hut lie said ho would not, but told me to take them off. I then got an old shirt of my brotlior-in-law’s, without sleeves, and a petticoat of mv own, and put them on him. I then got some red paint and a brush and painted his face and head all over. I then dragged him outside and thrashed him with a piece of rope. I thought that did mt hurt him enough and I got a whip and thrashed him with that until he cried out ‘ biu' der.'t One of Mr Haines’

blacksmiths came round and my husband walked into the bouse and put on lit;-: trousers, shirt, and coat, aud came out at the door. 1 then thrashed him through the gate with the whip, and

I did not see him till now.” The husband appears to have been a quarrelsome bully, and bad assaulted others as well as xu* wife on several occasion-. Of course he was drunk when he fell into her hands on this occasion.