INHUMAN HUSBAND
brutal conduct.
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. One of the statements made by a delicate young married woman in the Magistrate's Court was that when her first baby lay dead in its coffin her husband came home drunk and ill-treated her. He chased her with a knife, threatened to kill her and put her in I the coffin also. Her counsel said the man had had the unique experience of having been charged with drunkenness on the day the child was to be buried, and characterised it as the worst ease he had had to handle in his legal career. The Magistrate granted a separation. ; —Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 8 July 1925, Page 4
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107INHUMAN HUSBAND Northern Advocate, 8 July 1925, Page 4
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