FEMININE BRUTALITY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3511, 9 October 1882, Page 4

FEMININE BRUTALITY.

It is nob often that a divorce is sued for by a husband ou account oE his wife's "brutality," but such a case (writes the 'Erisco correspondent of the Auckland Herald) has occupied our Courts for two clays. The lady in the case is, it is alleged, possessed of " extraordinary strength and daring." She must be, according to the cruelties practised by her upon her unfortunate worse half, as he must be to have stood it all for so many years. Eor four years Mrs Isabella Browne had made it pretty lively, having attacked him twenty times in a manner worthy of a prize-fighter. Once the poor fellow was " beaten, battered, and cut" with open hands, clenched fists, and finger nails. His beard was pulled out by the roots by handsful, while his skin, nose, cheeks, and forehead were for long periods of time in a bleeding, torn, scarred, sore, and disordered state. Sin. _, this terrible Amazon cut his arm with a table knife. Again, the poor man's brow was disfigured by a pitcher which the fury hurled at his head. Vainly did poor James endeavor to quell the insane rage of Mrs Browne, in trying to do which he dislocated his right arm for the first time. A year afterwards she repeated the dose on his left arm, under similar conditions. Then did Mr Browne " pull, twist, and wrench " the injured limb, bringing the battle to a close by pounding him with an umbrella. These awful facts, coupled with poor James' statement that Mrs Browne indulged in language by no means parliamentary, caused him to sue for an absolute divorce, lest in the end he should lose his life at the hands of naughty, unkind Mrs Browne. The Judge expatiated largely on the enormity of Madame's proceedings, and granted the divorce, but I have not heard that the lady wa3 also bound to pay alimony to her much-abused lord, but not master ; so yon see we women do sometimes get the best of it.