DRUNKEN LABOURER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15551, 7 March 1914, Page 8

DRUNKEN LABOURER.

BREAKS HIS WIFE'S LEG.

A WOMAN'S SUFFERINGS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Da-Vjtevirkk, Friday. A labourer named James Mills was charged before the magistrate to-day with assaulting his wife with intent to do her actual bodily harm.

In October last, the accused went home intoxicated. His wife then went and brought his Sunday beer, which, on returning, fhe hid. Accused wanted a drink, but was refused by his wife. He resented this, and pushed his wife. She fell down and broke her leg. She then crawled into the yard to get out of her husband's way, and returned to the house when he had gone to bed. She sat in the kitchen until lie awoke and lifted her into bed, where she remained until the following Tuesday, when a neighbour called in a doctor in the evening, and she was removed to the hospital. She did not know that her leg was broken until the doctor came. The latter stated that .Mrs. Mills might never recover from the effects of her injury. The accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.