DOMESTIC SQUABBLE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day. At the Police Court Henry John Dent, aged C 3, who was charged with assaulting his wife by slashing her badly with a razor, was ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months and take out prohibition order. The police described tho case as a common domestic squabble. The ! accused's face was scratched in a disturbance, and, becoming heated, he took a razor from a chest of drawers and slashed his wife, who was in the hospital.
Counsel said that the accused had had liquor and, on returning homo, found his wife the worse for liquor] She attacked him and he took the razor to protect himself.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 13
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116DOMESTIC SQUABBLE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 13
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