EXTRAORDINARY SCENE ON A HOUSETOP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE ON A HOUSETOP.

At the Dundee, Police Court -Robert Hufceheaon, baker, ...Seagate, was remitted to the Fiscal charged with assaulting his wife. On a recent Saturday night a woman was observed op th'e roof of a four-atorey tenement. - Efforts were made to rescue her, but in consequence oc the excitement and confusion which prevailed. this was found to be a; work of much difficulty, and was not successfully-accomplished for a considerable time. The poor woman, when ultimately removed, from her perilous position, was very much exhausted, and unable to speak,. She was conveyed to the house of a neighbour, wbere'she.'soon recovered sufficiently to be able to tell how she came to be on the roof of the building. She stated that her husband came home between six and seven o'clock in the evening the worse- for driuk, and quarrelled with her without any-reason. Seeing there was little likelihood of agreeing with him, and fearing the result of a quarrel, she left the house and took refuge in the dwelling of • Thomas' Rhynd, a neighbour. He, however,' followed her, and, she alleges, dragged her back to her own house by the hair of. the head. After getting inside he locked thei door; struck her with his hands and also with a washing-board, kicked her, and, forcing:her. down on a chair, bound her hands behind her', back,' carried her to a skylight window, and, raising the.• sash, pushed her-through the opening on to the roof of the j building, a tenement of . four stories. • She struggled to get free, but without success; and he pulled~down the window sash, braising her fingers rather severely, and at the same time declaring that would be the last night she would live.. While on the roof she screamed and attracted the attentio" of passers-by, and assistance was rendered, withthe result stated. She was altogether an hour on the roof. .