WIFE ASSAULTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 13

WIFE ASSAULTED.

«' THE KING OF THE CASTLE." HUSBAND LOCKED IN HOUSE. "You know that ever since I have been married to you, you have been nagging at me and cannot leave me alone," said Louis Noel Stock, aged 34, to his wife in the Police Court yesterday, when charged with assaulting his wife, his brother, and Arthur Leonard Higgins. The wife stated that when her husband rame home on Tuesday evening he assaulted her and knocked her down. She went for a constable and when they returned they found the house locked up. Accused was inside and at first he would not open the door. Accused: The best thing I can do is to get a separation order. I cannot live with her as things are now. The Magistrate, Mr. Cutten: You cannot do that. Higgins said that -when accused was in his fighting mood they all ran away. (Laughter.) Witness hid under a bed, but accused found Mm and kicked him in the month. Accused: 1 just touched you with the point of my boot to get you out. "He came and started looking for fight," said accused's brother. "I grabbed a chair and he did not touch me. I wish to withdraw that charge." The Magistrate: It does not matter •what you wish to withdraw. Continuing, witness said his brother seemed "a bit mad." He had behaved like that before, and witness thought it might have something to do with the fact that accused was five or six years at the war A constable,, who called at the house ■with accused's wife, said accused would not open the door, and shouted out that he was the king of the castle. He was excited. "T did not- strike anyone," accused said. "[ told them all to get out. My 'wife does not obey me, She swore to do so and will have to. That is my argument." "We do not interfere with these domestic troubles as a rule," said Sergeant CalwelL "When the wife seeks protection, however, we have to r]o something." Accused: I do not want to live with my wife. On the charge of assaulting his wife, accused was fined £5. in default seven days' imprisonment. Ho was convicted and discharged for assaulting Higgins, while the charge of assaulting his brother was dismissed.