ALLEGED ASSAULT ON WIFE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3587, 15 January 1927, Page 3

ALLEGED ASSAULT ON WIFE

ANOTHER MAN IN THE CASE.

CHARGE DISMISSED

Auckland, January 14.

In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, George Ramsy Arnott was charged with assaulting his wife, Margaret Arnott. Complainant alleged that defendant came home unexpectedly one morning, knocked her down and kneeled on her idlest.

Complainant’s daughter said that she witnessed the assault and “took a hand by bashing her father on the head with a clothes brush.” She also took hold of a poker and dumb-bell with the object of settling matters. She admitted that a man friend of her mother’s was in the house at the time and that her father did not like the man coming to the house.

Mrs. Arnott, who produced- a doctor’s certificate describing her injuries, stated that Arnott had assaulted her on previous occasions. Under cross-examination, she admitted that some -years ago her husband had petitioned against her in divorce, giving her man friend as co-respondent, hut the parties had “made it up” again. She owned a trotting horse and her friend trained it.

Defendant’s leounsel asked why her trainer should be found at her bedroom door.

Defendant in evidence denied the charge. He stated that his object was to “get at the man and throw him out of the house.” He did not assault his wife, but merely brushed past her in the hall. She in turn grabbed him and held him until the man escaped. A gruesome object, in the shape of defendant’s blood-stained shirt, was produced. This was the result of his daughter’s attack with the clothes brush.

The Magistrate (Mr. Hunt) dismissed the charge.