A BLACKSMITH AND HIS WIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12695, 25 October 1904, Page 5

A BLACKSMITH AND HIS WIFE.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL correspondent.] Wellington, Monday. A singular case was before the Magistrate's Court to-day, when a blacksmith, Henry J. Jaallinan, asked that his wife should bo pound over to keep the peace. Mr. Wilford, counsel for the complainant, said the case was -an extraordinary one. Hallinan had instructed proceedings for divorce, and the Dunedin lawyers engaged had agreed to a certain course, but Mrs.. Hallinan had come up to Wellington, where her husband was working, and had made trouble. This very morning she had threatened to shoot- her husband, and had repeated the threat to a constable. Complainant, he asserted, was in danger of his life Replying to questions from Lb. McArthur, defendant hysterically sobbed that she could not go back to Dunedin and leave her child here. The magistrate said she had uttered such threats that she would have to be taken care oh Defendant denied that she had done so. Evidence was called to show that she had uttered threats in the Court precincts. She had threatened, said a Court orderly, that she would shoot her husband and give the magistrate '* a pill too." Defendant: " I totally deny what the constable says." Dr. McArthur: "Do you think the constable attached to this Court would go out of his way to say these things if you had not uttered them? This is out of all reason." Defendant: " I'm just as entitled to be believed as him. If he did not have the uniform on him you would not believe him." Mr. Wilford: " There's something in having a uniform on then." Defendant: " There's something in being a lawyer, too." Dr. McArthur decided to remand the case formally till next morning, to give defendant an opportunity of returning to Dunedin by to-night's boat.