WIFE AND RELIGION.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18928, 24 April 1933, Page 11

WIFE AND RELIGION.

remarkable allegations. PERSISTENT CRUELTY ALLEGED. Extraordinary allegations regarding •her husband’s conduct towards her wore made by a young wife at Brighton when she summoned her husband for persistent cruelty. The wife, Lily Bonne, told the •magistrates that she married George Raphael Bonne, in 1031, and they lived in Newhaven Street, Brighton, there being one child of the mariage. Bonne, she alleged, had been persistently cruel towards her, mainly owing to the fact that she would not attend his religious meetings on Sunday. He had struck her many times, hurting her badly. He generally banged her head against whatever was nearest—the door or the dresser. This sort of thing had been going on since their marriage, and she had marks and bruises all over her body. Five months after their marriage, she declared, he took her head between his hands and banged it against the dresser because she refused to go to his meeting on Sunday morning. Once he threw her downstairs and said, “The Lord did it.” She was In bed three days with a sprained ankle, but ho refused to call a doctor, saying that the Lord would heal her. He obtained a bottle of olive oil and wanted to anoint her and pray over her. On another occasion he threw a gramophone at her when she was playing it for the baby. “My husband is unemployed," Mrs Bonne continued, “and he will not try to get work. lie is either out after other women or else reading his Bible in bed and biting the sheets. Once, after reading the’ Bible in bed, he got up and took me by Hie throat.” Bonne strenuously denied liis wife’s allegations, and the magistrates adjourned, the case in order that lie might call witnesses.