WIFE AGAIN THREATENED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 34

WIFE AGAIN THREATENED.

ACCUSED NOT NORMAE. REMANDED FOR MEDICAL OBSERVATION. James Hamilton Ramsay, who appeared in the Police Court on Friday on a charge of threatening his wife with a firearm, again appeared in court on Saturday to answer a further charge of threatening his wife. This time the weapon was a razor. In addition, his wife applied for an order binding him to keep the peace, on the ground that he would do her and the children bodily harm. Ramsay pleaded guilty to the charge of assault. Senior Sergeant Quartermain said that on Friday defendant was ordered by the magistrate to keep away from his wife. Yet lie went to the home, and was there before her. The wife came home, and made up her mind to go to Green Island. There she was chased down the road by the defendant, whr threw her down, and, producing a razor, threatened to cut her throat and his own if she did not come back to him. Constable Hamilton said he arrested the defendant at Green Island. He told witness that he made her promise to come back to him, threatening that if she did not agree they would both die together. M itness found the razor on him. Ramsay denied having threatened his wife. He said he had carried the razor about for three months, since he had been roaming about. He needed it to shave with. “If, you give me a chance,” he said, ‘I will never go near her or speak to her again.” The Magistrate (Mr H. W. Bundle): Ramsay, I told you definitely yesterday that you were not to go near your wife. Ramsay: I thought I could go home and get my clothes. “You could not have thought so.’’ returned the magistrate, “for I told you quite definitely what the position was.” Both the magistrate and the senior sergeant were of the opinion that the accused was not normal, though perhaps he was not certifiable. Ramsay was remanded for a week for medical observation.