Blackened My Eye, Says Wife

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 268, 15 November 1934, Page 3

Blackened My Eye, Says Wife

HUSBAND CHARGED WITH ASSAULT On a charge of assaulting his wife, a bootmaker named John Emil Enoch Sass, aged 57, appeared beforo Messrs. W. G. Ashworth and D. J. Lovelock, J’s.J. in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday and pleaded not guilty. He was accordingly committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Mrs Sass told tho Court that she and her husband had been living apart for somo time. Last Friday morning about 6.45, Sass turned up at the houso and asked for a cup of tea. She informed him the kettle wasn’t boiling, his reply being to call her by anything but a pleasant name. She told him not to talk like that, whereupon he struck her with his fist three times, the last occasion in the eye. If it was said that she and her husband wero strugling and sho had been struck by the door, that explanation of her black eye would ■be untrue. Accused was quite sober and after hitting her, went away. Constable Arnold stated that when he saw Mrs Sass later in the day, her left eyo was completely closed and the whole of tho left side of her face was extensively bruised. Witness said he had been called to the Sass residence on several previous occasions because of the conduct of accused who was given to drink. Dr. D’. Mitchell said the extent of Mrs Sass’s injuries was a severe black left eye and a fracture of one of the bones of the nose.