WIFE'S STRANGE NARRATIVE.

Mataura Ensign, 29 December 1911, Page 5

WIFE'S STRANGE NARRATIVE.

♦ A strange story of a husband's alleged conduct was related at Sutton (Surrey) Police Court when Harry Cawfchorne, tobacco-cutter, of Oliver road, Sutton, was summoned by his wife. The complainant said her husband for the past three months had acted with persistent cruelty towards her. He had tried to jjin her head to a wall with her hat-pins and had threatened to strangle her. Once he threatened one of their children with a table knife. He also picked up the youngest child by one arm and threw her over the clothes-line. Falling to his knees, he beat the floor with his fist's and afterwards pretended to be opening an imaginary case of whisky. He would cut up joints at all hours of the night and told the witness he would serve her in the same way. One evening he threw the carpet on the fire and poured water into the candlesticks, which he drank from. The defendant told the magistrate that it was all a tissue of lies. What his wife wanted was the Angel Gabriel, and she could not get him. The Bench granted a separation order and warned the defendant not to molest his wife in future.

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