A BLACK EYE
HONEYMOON ASSAULT YOUNG WIFE TELLS THE COURT SYDNEY, March 7. Samuel Patrick Marshall was married at 6.30 p.m. last Saturday. At midnight he was arrested on a charge of assaulting his wife. To-day, when his wife appeared in the witness-box with a black eye, Marshall was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months. She did not want her husband sent to gaol said Mrs Marshall. Edna May Marshall, the young wife, told the magistrate at the Parramatta Police Court that the assult occurred in a taxi in which she and her husband, with her brother-in-law, Jack Marshall, and her sister-in-law, were going from her mother’s place to her new home at Flemington. Her husband, who was under the influence of liquor, struck Jack Marshall several times on the face. Then he turned on her and punched her face, making her nose bleed, and blackening one of her eyes. She gave him no provocation whatever. Sergeant Williamson told the Court that the defendant had been previously convicted for assaulting a policeman. He understood that the wife did not want her husband sent to gaol. She wanted him bound over Marshall said he was very sorry for what he had done. He bitterly regretted his act. He was ordered to And a surety of £2O for his good behaviour for 12 months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 11
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225A BLACK EYE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 11
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