“ HORRIBLE BLACKGUARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19147, 15 April 1924, Page 12

“ HORRIBLE BLACKGUARD

WIFE’S TERRIBLE STORES A TARGET i"UK JiUTTLKS. A terrible story was told in centiy when Mrs I Ahum button divorce because of the cruelty and ol her husband, Percy Kroneia Linton, to he now a coal merchant at Pexhill. charges were not denied. .Mrs Linton said she was married in at Colombo, and liver v... Calcutta. A few months after the he tied her to the bed, heat her and -w her out of the window, injunng^^^B n another occasion be tied her to post and threw sodawater bottles at One hit her in the eye and she still soar. When she told him that she preting a child lie kicio'd ‘"be wap born prematurely. In 1922 be was ing heavily and had debauches in the wkirli he compelled her to witness. threatened to kill her and when she te'enhone for help he cut the wires. Mrs Linton said she cot a (e non® into the house, and at Teuton tb'ew a tnreen of hot soun (Mrs i Linton). The following held her down and ivied to kill her. Bald she deserved being put at the a tank with a rope, round her nock. he became acquainted with ■■■■r.n Imov ]>.'vbor"e. and early in 1929 Linton) left him. Mr Justice Uiil, in granting a said that his onlv regret was th-t i-ilitv could not be criminally The man was a bov-hV