POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18130, 30 June 1922, Page 9

POLICE COURT NEWS.

, MAN ASSAULTS HIS WIFE. FOURTEEN BAYS' HARD LABOUR. Fourteen days' hard labour was imposed oil a voung man, Lewis Douglas Ross, who appeared at the Police Court yesterdav, bofore Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., on a charge of having assaulted his wife in' Cook Street. The wife stated thai I accused ha<i " hammered " her ever sincn a month after her marriage, whetb<;r ho j was drunk or sober. When he went boras about 6 p.m. on Wednesday _b»j called her names. She resented this and he caught her by the throi.t and threw her on the bed. When she ran down the street for the police lie ran after her. palled ber hat to pieces ar,d tore her dress aim ait off. Accused said his wife's violent temper wps the cause of the trouble. SJ'e misunderstood a remark lie made aid flew into a rage. All he did was to try to keep her in the house, and when she ran out for the police to try to get her to return. YOUNG WOMAN SENT TO GAOL. A vounji single woman. Mur.el Elsie MaeDonaid, admitted having stolen £2 1 10s, the property of another woman. In a statement produced bv Constable JohnseE accused said thai when about to leave her employment at an hotel she had taken the money from a box belonging ts a fellow ! employee who shared a room w,th her. j "ItVas a deliberate theft, and I cannot ! overlook it." said the magis'rrate. Accused | was sentenced to 14 days' imprijonmenfc.