UNWELCOME HUSBAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 11

UNWELCOME HUSBAND

THREW TEA AT MOTHER-

IN-LAW FIGHT WITH CONSTABLE Separated from his wife by order of the court yesterday morning, John James Wells returned to her home in the evening, threw tea in his mother-in-law’s face and behaved so boisterously that he had finally to be arrested. Wells, a labourer aged 3S, pleaded not guilty at the Police Court this morning to a charge of being disorderly while drunk in Osborne Street, Newmarket, and assaulting Constable Oliver in the execution of his duty. ! Senior-Sergeant O’Grady said that i W ells had gone to the house where ! his wife was living and made a scene, j tie had been separated from her in i fhe morning and he had no right in ! the place. j According to Constable Oliver, Wells I had used filthy language and as- ! vaulted him. Witness had not been badly hurt. Wells explained that he could remember little about the visit. He had gone to the house to get his things. Ascertaining that the man had only one previous conviction for an assault last October, when he had been fined £l, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., ordered Wells to come up for sentence when called upon on the condition that he took out a prohibition order. “I would send him to gaol for 14 days if it were not for his wife and children, and the £2 a week he has to pay them,” added the magistrate. “Probably the excitement of the order being made had something to do with it.”