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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 13

bailed, Diomede, for Wellington : Ficton. A case of assault on fi woman camp before the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court, the assail nil- being Norman Uiarles Williams. -According to the story recounted liV Sergeant Sivyer. Williams arrived home in ]i«|iior,'and when lie violently assaulted his wife .she tried' to get out of the window. Williams then pulled the sa-sli down on her mid held her by the neck while he humped her with his knees. The police were summoned and when they arrived they found, her in an unconscious condition. the accused was one ol those who did little nolle mu! lived upon his wife. It was one of the worst eases of a husband assaulting a wife that he knew of. Counsel pleaded for leniency. The magistrate sentenced the man to a month’s imprisonment with hard labor.