HUSBAND ASSAULTS WIFE.
YOUNG MAN FINED £5. WARNING BY MAGISTRATE. Held guilty of assaulting his wife, Valentine Christopher Jones, aged 23, was fined £5 in the Police Court yesterday. Giving evidence against her husband, Mrs. J ones, aged 32, said on Tuesday j night she was sitting in a chair and her husband was lying on a sofa at their home in St. Heliers Bay During a dis■cussion over domestic matters Mrs. Jones alleged her husband sprang at her. "I •cannot remember anything after that," •witness said. "When 1 got up J had a black eye and a hump on (ha back of my head." Witness added that they had b;en married for four years and had two children. Lately they had not been -happy. .Denying his guilt, accused said when ho got up to make his wife listen to him she seemed startled and fell over backwards. The magistrate, Mr. t\ K. Hunt: Consider yourself lacky. Fortunately for you, you have not been here for this sort of thing before. I have no sympathy with men who hit their wives. If you had done it before I would npt have hesitated to send you to gaol for 14 days just as 1 did with a man who hit his wife the other «tfay.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19860, 2 February 1928, Page 14
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