AUCKLAND COURT.
A PLUG OF GELIGNITE. CHARGE OF ASSAULTING WIFE. CBy Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday. A smart arrest was made last night by two acting-detectives whose suspicions were aroused by the movements of an old criimnal named Thomas Rogers. When apprehended, he was found to have in his .possession a plug of gelignite. Rogers was sent to gaol this morning for three months. At the Police Court to-day, John Crane, ailas Ivan Krajanich, was remanded on a charge of assaulting his wife, who sought a separation order on the ground of persistent cruelty. Counsel for the wife stated that she was frightened of her husband, who yesterday got a rope round her neck and dragged her about the yard, a&d also threatened to murder her little girl, of which he was not the father. Counsel for accused said a different complexion would be put on the matter when the case came on agaiu. Accused was warned to keep away from his wife in the meantime.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17131, 18 June 1927, Page 8
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