COURT NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1931, Page 5

COURT NEWS

WIFE’S ALLEGATIONS

APPLICATION FOR SEPARATION'. fßy Telegruph—ter tress Association) AUCKLAND, July 10. “He stood over me while .1 signed the withdrawal slips; then lie drew £l7O of niy money from the bank.” This allegation and many others were made by Elsie Elizabeth Maude Court against Robert Harold Court this morning when 'the wife applied for a separation order..

In dispute are Government and local body debentures to-the value-of £5050 which are ■ claimed by the . wife, but there is to: ;be a Supreme; Court action in connection >with them..-In ' February last Mrs Court .handed over: the debentures to her husband for the reason that a child was expected and she thought it was proper that her husband should have control. With .the debentures he went to the bank and raised a n overdraft for the purpose of buying a motor-car. However, the debentures are now in chancery (at present held by the bank). When Mrs Court was asked if her husband got violent she replied: “Yes, sometimes. Then he talks and talks and talks self-righteousness. He’s always in the right. He tries to rule everybody. He can talk for hours without stopping. On one occasion before the- baby came he talked till four o'clock in the morning. Sometimes 'lie has said I am not nice and that he will ring up the police and tell them there is a woman annoying him. Lately lie has been living on brandy," COMPLAINTS AGAINST WIFE. COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE. AUCKLAND, July 10. . “I am not going to have my Court made a plaec where a man can come along and ask that his wife he hound over to keep the peace. It •is disgraceful. This is one of the most painful cases 1 have,ever- heard,” said the Magistrate (Mr F. K. Hunt) "today when Robert J. Terry, dietitian, of Auckland,' proceeded against his wife.. Helen Irene Terry, on two informations alleging that she used provoking langi uage and created a disturbance in"the consulting room for the purpose : of annoying and provoking his patients. The complaints were dismissed with £2‘ 2s costs.

DESECRATION. CEMETERY THIEF SENTENCED. PALMERSTON NORTH, July 10 Sentence of three years’ detention in a Borstal Institute was passed on Jack Nicol, agecf eighteen, a salesman, on a charge with stealing a wreath from the Kelvin Grove Cemetery. ■ "Detective .Russell said that thirty similar charges could have been_ brought against the accused,

A STIFF FINE. CHRISTCHURCH, July 13. As a sequel to the opium, raid,. Ah Wing, occupier, of a house in Allen Street, was, fined £IOO, in default three months imprisonment in the Magistrate’s Court to-day for permitting opium smoking on his premises.

Three other Chinese were fined £2O and costs for being found on the premises.

It came as a surprise to the police to find that a place in Christchurch should be so heavily. barracaded said Senior Sergt. Fox.

Accused was described as a laundryman and pleaded guilty.