LIVELY HONEYMOON.
AGED HUSBAND CHARGES WIFE. At Bradford, a husband, aged 77, summoned his wife, aged 45. for assault. The husband, Edwin Townsend, said hig wife came home drunk, and as he was going to bed she struck him on the head with her slipper. "I bled like a pig,” he said, “but I got to the window and rattled it a bit, and that kept her quiet.” In reply to the stipendiary, Mr Beaumont Morice, Townsend said they had been married two months. The wife, however, shouted that they had been married a fortnight, and, feverishly searching her handbag, produced a marriage license, which showed that they had not been married throe weeks. “The honeymoon is not over yet,” commented the stipendiary. Defendant said that her husband had not taken her out since they were married. She had fetched a policeman to her husband three times. “He has upset me ever since we were married,” she added. “He has had three wives, and I’m the fourth. He won’t b© talked to as my other boy would.” The Stipendiary: Have yon been married before? —No, I was a housekeeper. Defendant was bound over for six months.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 10
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196LIVELY HONEYMOON. Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 10
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