HIS ARRIVAL HOME

NZ Truth, Issue 1229, 20 June 1929, Page 3

HIS ARRIVAL HOME

1 . ■ ' ■ .-.- ♦'- . '- .-■■-. SWORE AND STRUCK ■ HER, SAID WIPE _ - THIRTY DAYS - ,

(From "N.Z. Truth's"' ChristchTiifcßl Rep.) Apparentlya comparatively small 7' fine . on charges of breaking His i prohibition order and using ob- --_..'. scene language was not sufficient ',-. ■ punishment to cause John Francis i <--'" McDonald to mend his ways. ' - A FTER he- lef t the Christchurch = -court.-- --• he promptly went and repeated thd--* offences, throwing m one of 'assault an,' his wife-'fbr luck7~ 7* "" •".'• '77 '7 7 One day recently McDonald. .Jwji'sji.'.;..fined £2 on V each.'' of. the charges' of^ breaking his prohibition order. an_-V ; using obscene language. ». ,-_..» Sub-inspector P. J. O'Hara on that 7 occasion told the court that McDonald* 7 had gone home .m a/dr.urikeri condition'^ and disturbed the other occupants, of _ ■;- the house. / . A quarter of an hour later they re? 7, turned and heard him using the obscene language, so they arrested him. . "Mr. Hensley, who appeared for McDonald, said drink seemed to - be the reason for the trouble. Mrs. McDonald said hey husband arrived home about' five o'clock and;; started to abuse her. , She went out* 7 side to avoid him arid he followed her. . He swore at her and struck heir. "When 7. he/;is Ispber,", she said, , "he does not* • knock me- about." - ■ 7 ■■--■■ TMCcDpnald had been living with hi» 7 wife and had called' ifor his clothes as ;' he was going to Ashburton to work; "He can go away after, he has dpn€j 7 thirty days," said the magistrate;'^ -v'^