Exhibit "A."

NZ Truth, Issue 1187, 30 August 1928, Page 3

Exhibit "A."

HER face black, and blue, her eyes . puffed up and closed, her ears red and bruised and with sundry abrasions on her face and chest, Mary Graham, better known, as Mary Miller, .staggered on the arm of th/e police matron to the. wit-ness-box,, .there to tell Magistrate . Mosley of the monstrous brutality of Cyril Sydney Arthur M.iller, the man with whom she had -been , /' living. ' • ' - '•/.' Miller was charged 'with, assault, and it proved to, hay? '-been ■ of the ,moSt . brutal .imaginable.. ■ /* „,',:,' Mary Miller, 60 years of age, has an interest m 'an hotel m the—south which brings her .m an m- . come of £10 weekly. When^her last. payment arrived Miller sought to obtain it and m the attempt to , persuade her to' disgorge; he beat..; , her unmercifully.' : . ... . .The result of the battering the ' poor. woman received at the hands, of the man was pitifully apparent- • Miller had nothing to' sa y for .himself, except' that the woman had fallen down. : . "You have committed an assault of a most bruta) nature," said the ' S.M.,'."an'd she will not fall down I hope for' a' long time to come. You are. sentenced to six monthsimprisonment with hard labor." '■;/■■•■ -■ ■■■■ ■ :;. ; ■■;• ■■#*■•/■■: