A LOVERS’ “TIFF”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19365, 23 July 1925, Page 10

A LOVERS’ “TIFF”

GIRL ROUGHLY BEATEN ANGEL STREET COURTSHIP Her face was covered in blood, and her clothes torn off her back. Her iover had struck her continuously for .’.bout live minutes. Such was part or the story which Maude Daniels had told to Sir Peisley, S.M.. at the Newtown Court on .Tune 3But to-day she merely described the affair as a “little tiff ” SYDNEY. July 12. Her lover. Archibald Edwin Bail, appealed before Judge White, in No. 3 District Court, against a sentence of six months’ imprisonment—suspended lon Lis finding sureties of £BO, and ' which Miss Daniels, with great diffiIj cutly, had secured for him. ' Maude Daniels, of Harold Street, Newtown, in her evidence at the police court, said that appellant called at her house in Newtown about 6 p.m. on June 1. and she went with him for a walk in Angel Street. He started U'ing bad language and pulling her about. He struck her continually for about five minutes. All her clothes were torn off her back, and her face . wtas covered in blood when she got home. She produced items of clothing. whi<h were saturated in blood. ■ She (old Judge White that her cvijdenrr nt the lower court was quite cori rect, but the affair was not very seri:ous. They often had little tiffs. “It iwas more blood than anything else. [ He pushed my nose and that caused ! the blood to come,” she said. TORE UP HIS SHIRTS • She had torn up his shirts the-night i

before, and that was why he had assaulted her. They were engaged to be married, she added. “Excuse me, he' has (a wife and one child,’’ shouted a woman at the back of Ihe court. Miss Daniels, continuing her evidence, said that she and appellant walked in from Newtown this morning. He. gtive her money every week, and was preparing a homo for her. She did not believe he was married. The lady in court who had called out was her mother.

Archibald Edwin Bail, the appellant, a labourer, living in Station Street. ; Newtown, said he was drinking all day | and remembered nothing of the assiautt. After she had charged him, Miss Dani- ! els desired to withdraw the charge, and had gone to five different places to get bail for him. Re denied that ho wtas married. “On the day of the assualt on Miss Daniels, her mother, Airs Hulton, camo to my house, kicked up a hell of a row and assaulted mo.” he added. The judge dismissed the (appeal, but reduced appellant’s sureties from two in £4O to one in £lO, covering his good behaviour for .12 months.