FOR BETTER OR WORSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 516, 20 November 1928, Page 13

FOR BETTER OR WORSE

HUSBAND AND WIFE IN DOCK WOMAN SENT TO PAKATOA “Surely f saw these two here last week,” remarked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., as Frederick and Annie Clay entered the dock at the Police Court this morning. Frederick Clay, alias Felix Hogin, a blacksmith, aged 32, and Annie Clay, alias Annie Drury, a domestic, aged 42, were charged with being disorderly while drunk in Wellesley Street. Both husband and wife, who possessed 6?id betw*een them, pleaded guilty. “The woman was up last week for assaulting her husband,” said SubInspector McCarthy. “Her husband then gave her a good character, and said she was a good little woman when off the drink.’’ Mr. McCarthy reminded the magistrate that he had threatened th© woman with the island. “That is so,” agreed Mr. Hunt. “We will send her to Pakatoa for a year.” Annie Clay: “Oh, please, Mr Hunt! I wasn’t really drunk.” The woman continued to protest until taken from the dock. “The man appears to be a bit of a blackguard, too,” continued Mr. Hunt. “He has just finished three months.” Clay was fined £5. .A request for time to pay was refused, the subinspector remarking that, if a man had time to wander round town and get drunk wife, his job could not be very important.