RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. THIS DAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 124, 26 May 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. T HIS DAY.

[Before L. Bkoad, Esq., R.M.] Stephen Rough Matthews was charged, on tho information of the Inspector of Police, (the injured woman herself declining to prosecute) with stabbing and woundiDg Isabella Matthews, his wife. On the book being placed in the woman's hands, she positively refused to take the oatb, stating that nothing would induce her " to go agin him." His Worship : I shall commit you to gaol for three days, and you will be brought up here every day nnd asked whether you intend to give your evidence. Mrs Matthews : You may send me there for three years, but I won't do it. Prisoner : It's no use for you to go on like that. Let the case go on. Mrs Matthews : Ah ! my good gentleman, you needn't talk to me; you've too good a cheek altogether; His Worship : You are doing him no good by refusing, for I shall have to remand him from day to day until you give your evidence. Mrs Matthews : Ah 1 your Honor, I can't do it. He's a dangerous man, and I don't know what he may do to himself in prison. You may put me there as long as you like, you may send roe there for twenty years, but I'll give no oath at all. Do let him clear away j from here altogether. * Prisoner, addressing his wife : From port to port, and shore to shore, I swear under this oanopy of heaven that I will follow you up from day to

day until I bring you to a true sense of your duties as a wife. I swear it. The woman was then committed to gaol for three days, and the prisoner remanded.