FLOGGED BLACK AND BLUE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 3

FLOGGED BLACK AND BLUE.

HUSBAND SENT TO IMUSON. A man namuil Robert ’Thom. of Green Island, appeared before Mr. .1. 0. L. Hewitt, S.M., in tin* Dunedin Magistrate’s Court, eliarged with assaulting his wife and with trespassing on her premises during the curreney id' a maintenance order. Accused said lie had lieen invited to the house, but the wife’s account was that he had been living at the house very much against her will. Last Christmas, she alleged, he had broken her shoulder and later he Hogged her with a whip until she w;as black and blue. On another occasion he laid picked np a live dog and hammered her with it. Constable Hamilton gave evidence that when the defendant, was drank he was not responsible for his • net ions. The constable substantiated the account of Thom’s bridal behavior. “1 saw the marks oil the woman’s back after the man had flogged her,” said the constable, in answer to SeniorSergeant Quurtcrmuin, who prosecuted.

After breaking a jug over the woman's shoulder and breaking her shoulder-bone, the constable, added, Thom jabbed the broken handle into her body. The woman would make ho complaint. She was evidently afraid of Ihe man.

Asked wit a I he had to say, accused .’lnmmcrcd something about being able to get on fairly well with his wife, except when he hud drink.

“It is a very bad record,” said the Magistrate. "What is fairly well for you is not very nice for anyone else.

"I will have to teach you a lesson,” continued the Magistrate, after consideration. "I am not going to make it heavy, but you will .have to learn that, you cannot do things like this.”

Ho sentenced Thom to fourteen days’ imprisonment on each, charge, the sentences to bo concurrent.