PECULIAR CASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 164, 12 June 1926, Page 10

PECULIAR CASE.

HEARING AT AVELLINGTON. MAN WHO FEARED HIS WIFE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 12. A remarkable case was dealt with in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Florence Irene Frobisher, wife of James Godfrey Frobisher, licensee of the Albion Hotel, was charged with three counts of assaulting her husband and of refusing to leave the hotel premises When requested. Another information stated that Frobisher had cause to fear, and did fear, that his wife would do him bodily harm, wherefor he prayed that she be ordered to find sureties of peace. Frobisher in evidence stated that there was a deed of separation, dated May 27, which gave him custody of the child and his wife an allowance, and forbade her to visit the hotel. She had several times since been in the hotel and had used abusive language to him. She had struck him with her fist and threw r a telephono at him, injuring his eye. The police had been called in, and on the threat to remove her she left.

The wife’s counsel said that she was only 24. She had only gone to the hotel to see the child. Defendant denied the allegations of assault. Air Page, S.M., said that it was clear that she had committed a serious assault and had flouted the separation order and flouted tho Supreme Court. She was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within two years and to he brought up for sentence if the police found her in tho hotel. This was on the cliargo of refusing to leave. The other charges were adjourned sine die.