DOMESTIC TROUBLES VENTILATED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11847, 31 May 1919, Page 2

DOMESTIC TROUBLES VENTILATED.

Per Press Association.

__ Auckland, May 29. A domestic trouble was ventilated in the Police Court, when Charles Edward Bumper, of Devonport, preceded against his son, Ernest Albert Dumper, for assault. “•Complainant, who was in the garb of a clergyman, said he called at a house in Devonport to sell tea, when his son appeared, and took his hat off and threw it into the yard. “I told him he was a naughty boy,’’ the witnses said.

The Magistrate; What age is he? —Twenty seven. Witness added, between sobs, that he w r as grieved to relate that his son then pushed him, and he fell down. Defendant, in evidence, stated that he lived with his mother, who recently obtained a divorce from the complainant. On May 10th his father came to the house, and refused to leave. Witness then took him to the gate, but did nod kick him down. 1 ‘He cried like a school kid, just as he did just now.” Corroborative evidence was given by the defendant’s sister. She said her father made himself a great nuisance by annoying the women of the family. Although dressed as a minister, he was not one. Complainant: You know I was at the house for the purpose of selling tea. Witness: No, you were not. Complainant: Did I not offer you a bunch of violets one morning?— Yes, and I refused them. Complainant, again resorting to tears; Yon broke my heart. The Magistrate dismissed the ease.