MALIGNANT HALF-BREED
VICIOUS ASSAULT ON WIFE. THKEE MONTHS’ HARD LABOUR. A. half-bred Portuguese, John Thomas who figured on Monday in a sordid case at the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court, the result of which was that his wife was granted separation, cutody of her three children, and £2 5s per -week, was before Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., again this morning. He had surrendered himself to the police because he feared that he might murder his wife. Yesterday he met his wife on the Taipuha railway station and, when he found that she proposed to take some of the furniture from her previous home, he tried to strangle her. ■Strangers intervened, and then Thomas went to his dwelling-house and with an axe smashed all the furniture he could. He admitted that he ‘'saw red.” When sentencing accused to three months’ hard labour, his Worship remarked that it would provide opportunity to have the prisoner placed under observation.
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Northern Advocate, 3 November 1927, Page 4
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