FAMILY QUARREL.
OLD LADY BEFORE COURT. A family quarrel which occurred at a residence in Johnstone Street last Monday resulted in Mary Agnes Hourigan, 66 years of age, appearing in the Magistrate’s Court at . Masterton yesterday morning before Mr. J. Miller, S.M., on a charge of assault and to enter into a recognisance for keeping the peace. The charge arose out of a visit last Monday morning to the residence of Wm. Patrick O’Brien, farmer, residing at Johnstone Street, by the defendant, the complainant’s wife being a daughter of Mrs. Hourigan. It was alleged by the complainant O’Brien that his mother-in-law abused and assaulted him on the morning of her visit.
The Magistrate, in his summing up, said that it appeared there was some truth in the allegations made by complainant and he adjourned the case sine die with the provision that defendant was not to go near the O’Briens. If he asked her to enter into a recognisance for keeping the peace it might mean the loss of her old age pension. A similar charge laid by Mary Agnes Hourigan against Wm. Patrick O’Brien was dismissed.
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Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1929, Page 3
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