SAT WIFE ON HOT STOVE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 200, 23 August 1929, Page 8

SAT WIFE ON HOT STOVE

AUCKLAND MAN DIVORCED \ (Special to “Chronicle”) AUCKLAND, AUG. 21. Because tea was not ready for Charles H. ISlundy he picked his wife up and sat her on a hot stove. Fortunately no damage was done. That was part of the story unfolded by Anna Gertrude Mundy before Mr Justice Ostler at the Divorce Court this morning when she asked for a divorce from Charles Mundy, to whom she was married on October 13, 1908.

For years hej husband had been drinking heavily and constantly out of work. She had had to keep herself and the children. He had often been violent toward her, sitting her on the hot stove once when he had come home and found no tea ready because she did not have money to btay anything. Her dress had been burned. She left him shortly afterwards and he had not contributed anything toward the keep of the family or herself.