BRUTAL HUSBAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 11

BRUTAL HUSBAND

STRUCK WIFE WITH BABY IN ARMS ORDERED TO KEEP THE PEACE Though separated from his wife, Robert John Dias continues to pester her and the culmination of a series of incidents occurred on Christmas Eve, when he struck her while she had her young baby in her arms. Dias, a labourer, aged 26, was charged at the Police Court this morning with being disorderly while drunk and assaulting Ernest Albert Grintil and Ivy Ellen Dias. “I had better plead guilty, as I do not remember much about it,” said Dias. Mrs. Dias said that although she and her husband were separated he continued to pester her, and on Christmas Eve at the corner of Quay and Queen Streets he had knocked her into a shop doorway while she had her young baby in her arms. Senior-Sergeant Cummings: Dias also assaulted a chief petty officer from H.M.S. Dunedin, but there is no trouble about that. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.: He chose a pretty tough customer. Dias, who had been bailed out during the holidays, offered to take out a prohibition order, and was fined £1 on the charge of assaulting his wife, being convicted and discharged on the other two charges. “He must take out a prohibition order and find a surety of £5 to keep the peace,” said Mr. Cutten. Dias: Thanks very much.