SENT TO GAOL

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1932, Page 6

SENT TO GAOL

FOR ASSAULT UPON WIFE.

S.M. IMPOSES HARD LABOUR

PALMERSTON NORTH, August 24. Sentence of two months’ imprisonifient • With : 'hird laobui’ Was riuiptseu on Edward John Nofike, gardener, aged years, by Mi'' Ji L. 'Sto-ut, 53. M., in the Magistrate’s Count th.-s morning. Accused pleaded giii-ty '4O k charge of assaulting hi® wife, Eunice Mary ,Noffke. Counsel ibr the as-, sault had occurred as a of accused' instituting divoreg -‘xproceediugs against his wif£. Accused had been' a pest to hi® wife' since they 35 separated. -He had found oUt Where she was living, and had assaulted her and forced her to telephone her solicitor to request him to cancel 1 h *r defence of the ‘ divorce. Obunsel said 1 ' accused had remarked to hint bn one occasion that he “would do his W-ffi '.n. Whitehouse 1 : sa’d '■ that-' in the first' Week of' their -married -life; accused had knocked: his wife uncoh-• scions for no apparent reason. On the o>*ridri (concerned in the present, • charge he had threatened, to break his wife’s arm,' arid it was in order'to stop' him . from carrying out his threat that she had telephoned 1 her solicitor. (Tn these occasions accused iseemcd to go mad and lose his reason. He ’had been warned ‘ that if - ho- did ifciti learn to control himself he would be' mur.diring his wife. •Mr J. L. Stout, i S.M.', had' suggested convicting accused and ordering . h’m .to come up " for sentence' month's;' but When the senior-fetyr gave hits opinion of accused he imujSe.4 senten-e of' two months’f imprisonment with hard labour.