Reconciliation Bid With Bayonet

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 330, 11 January 1937, Page 8

Reconciliation Bid With Bayonet

WHEN FLOWERS, CHOCOLATES AND ‘NICE LOVE-LETTER’ FAILED A husband who appeared in court nt Southend (England, said he carried a bayonet to frighten his wife into a re conciliation after “bunches of flowers, boxes of chocolates, a tin of sweets, a bag of fruit and a nice love letter” ha H . failed to induce her to speak to him. The husband, George Harvey (39;, window cleaner, of Glendale gardens, Leigh, was charged with loitering with intent to commit a felony. A police inspector explained that the "intent” alleged was an attempt to murder his wife from whom he had been separated for two months. A bayonet about eighteen inches long produced in court was alleged to have been found under Harvey’s coat by officers, who saw him loitering near his wife’s lodgings. Harvey told the magistrate he wanted his wife back, but she would not speak to him. As she came out of the Salvation Army hall he told her: “I will make you talk to me.” He went home and got the bayonet. Elis only intention was to frighten her and get her to speak to him. “My wife is as safe as you are,” Harvey told the chairman. The clerk told Harvey he would never jet a reconciliation with a bayonet. The case was adjourned for three weeks on Harvey giving an undertaking not to frighten or molest hi» wife.