"AN INHUMAN MONSTER."
SEPARATION GRANTED TO A WOMAN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. At the Police Court to-day, Annie Drummond applied for a summary separation order against her husbana, who is a tramway motorinan. In givin" evidence, complainant said she had "been married ele.en years, and had three children. Last Thursday, when her husband got a summons, u* ~»aCed her cruelly and tried to force the summons down her throat. He had threatened her and her children, and his language had ibeen simply disgraceful. He had bled her nose, and she had had to call in a doctor to see if it was broken. He said before she got a separation order he would get a revolver and "do" for her and the children. He was a ~.nn with an ungovernable temper. ■His Worship said that it was a pity the wife could not be separated by an action of divorce. The best kmu „ t a wife for a man of this kind was one with a pretty strong temperament. All he had to .say of his conduct was that he was an inhuman monster: Ho would grant the order and would order deiendant to pay the wife 30s a week, „;th| costs ( £2,69).
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 5
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205"AN INHUMAN MONSTER." Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 5
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