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MAN'S THREAT TO WIFE
LONDON, Dec. 20 A husband threatened to cut off his wife's head with a carving knife unless she ate some hedgehog which she had prepared for his supper She ate some. At Leicester matrimonial court, when the woman alleged cruelty and sought a separation, the magistrates' clerk was puzzled "I don't know whether this constitutes cruelty or not." he said. "Is a hedgehog edible?" Mr. H. G. Bennett, for the husband, said that in Buckinghamshire hedgehogs provided a favourite dish. "I made her eat half so that her big, ugly sister should not have it," declared the husband The case was adjourned F<" ••inniry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24189, 3 February 1942, Page 7
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