BLAMED HIS WIFE !
(From "Truth's" Special Dunedinßep.) On Anniversary Day John Campbell made the most of the holiday by consuming enough drink to get "lit up like a street full of lamps." - At night he was m a state bordering on madness and let loose language that was so lurid as to cause even the ears of the arresting constable to take a deeper tinge of • pinkness. But m addition he started to pull the palings off the fence between his, place and that of his neighbor and gave the .policeman a rough ( . time m a struggle' that took place mostly oh the ground. V "It all came about through , the tantalising of my wife," he told the Magistrate. "I haven't had a day's peace this year and I told her that if she didn't stop it I would pull the house, down." Campbell was given a week m . which to pay fines. totalling ,£B/4/-.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1063, 8 April 1926, Page 5
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