DRUNKEN HUSBAND BREAKS WIFE'S LEG.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9743, 7 March 1914, Page 3

DRUNKEN HUSBAND BREAKS WIFE'S LEG.

THREE DAYS BEFORE MEDICAL AID IS SEOUIiED. (Pib Press Association.) ' DANNEVIRKE, March 6. James Mills, a labourer, who wanted to drink his Sunday beer on Saturday night, was charged before the Magistrate with assaulting his wife, with intent to cause actual budilv harm. On 18th October last, accused went home intoxicated. His wife then went and brought his Sunday beer, which, on returning, she hid. Accused, feeling dry, wanted, a drink, but was refused. He resented this, pushed his wife, and she fell and broke her leg. She then crawled into the yard to got out of amtced's way, returned to the house when her husband had gone to bed, and sat in the kitchen till he awakenecl. lie lirufcd, her into bed, where she remained till Tuesday, until u neighbour called in a doctor in the evening, and she was removed to tjie hospital. She did not know her log broken until the doctor came. Later." ihe. ifbetor told accused that his wife might ne'yer recover from the effect's of the injury. Accused pleaded guilty, and wa* committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.