A DOMESTIC SQUABBLE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 210, 30 May 1919, Page 5

A DOMESTIC SQUABBLE

By TeiegraDß—Press Association. Auckland, May 29. A domestic trouble was ventilated in the Police Court, when Charles Edward Dumper, of Dcvonport, proceeded against his son, Ernest Albert Dumper tor assault. The complainant, who was in the garb of a clergyman,, said he called lit a house in Devonpm-t to sell tea, when his ton appeared nnd took his hat off and threw it into the yard. "I toid him lie was a naughty boy," the witness auid. The Magistrate: What age js lie?~ "Twenty-seven." Tho witness added, between sobs, that he was grieved to relate that his son then pushed him nnd lie fell down. • Defendant, in. evidence,-, stated that he lived with his mother, who recently obtained a divorce from the complainant. On May 10 his father came to tlie house and refused to leave. Witness then took him to the gate, but did not kick him down, "lie cried like a school child, just as ho did just now," witness added. Corroborative evidence was given by <le : fondant's sister. She said her father had made himself a great nuisance by annoying the women of the family. Although dressed as a minister he was not one, Complainant: You know I was at the house for the purpose of soiling teu.~ "No, you were not." "Did I not offer you a bunch of violets one morning?"—" Yes, iU'd 1 .refused them." Complainant (again resorting to tears): You broke my heart, The Magistrate dismissed tho case,