"UNGOVERNABLE."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 904, 25 August 1910, Page 6

"UNGOVERNABLE."

THE MOTORMAN AND HIS WIFE. (By Telczraph.-l'resß Association.) ' Dunedin, August 24. At the Police Court to-day Annio Drummond applied for a summary separation order against her* husband, who is a tramway motorman. In giving evidence complainant said that she had been married eleven years, and had. three children. Last Thursday, when her husband got tho summons, he treated lier cruelly, and tried to force tho summons down lier throat. He had threatened her and her children, and his language had been simply disgraceful. He had bled her nose, and sho had had to call in a doctor to see if it was broken. He said that, beforu sho got a. separation order, ho would got a revolver and "do" for her and tho children. He was a man of ungovernable temper.. His Worship said that it was a pity that tho wife, could not bo separated by. action 'nf divorce. Tho best kind of a wife for a man of this kind was one with a pretty strong temperament. All he had to say of his conduct was that ho was an inhuman monster. Ho would grant an order, and would also order defendant to pay his wife 30s. n, week, with costs (£2 65.).