STRUCK WITH WHIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1075, 12 September 1930, Page 1

STRUCK WITH WHIP

woman s claim judgment to defendant ‘I want to put him up on a festal as a warning to other *o»nen.” 'kis, claimed Lily Wright, a marwoman, of Waiheke Island, was -' re ? s °n why she proceeded against snem Robert Matthews, a farmer, i renrose, and lat( . of vVaiheke, ber« Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., in the , <e Court this morning for £3O '‘“ages for assault. I ilka ntift alle g f -d that Matthews had 1 1 .. a at ' ler house, and after calling [Yin name > had struck her with a l-tr ii, ttarkin g her face and leaving liilsn nr* most nervous state. Mr. ti er °°^- v appeared for defendant, H. Cocker for plaintiff. IaL vlng her evidence, plaintiff said w 611 ® became excited and she ento set ll,e whip away from * )ut ’*• slipped through her ? before she could secure it. He C * w hile she stood on the thiaii an h did so twice before she tlaln',.:S andled th “ whip, tide “ Ba * d that w hen he was outSon ®*. gate he used a foul expres•a eui threatened her. Vlth * v,ng judgment for the defence, W m,i, ’ thl ' magistrate said that it iu, ,; e evident that had plaintiff ‘‘raid , c * she would have been lit that was not the case, as iJd ! OWe,i defendant to the gate 'inilff a 'i ourf ' <1 to get the whip, "tabln , got excited and was *kat m-n B , lve a very good account of “°k place.