A DOMESTIC PROSECUTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 July 1907, Page 2

A DOMESTIC PROSECUTION.

Per Presa Association. . Dunedin, July 22. At the Police Court to-day, Mary Prentice and Sarah Jackson, mother and daughter, were charged with the theft of a gold ring and gold mounted pendant," three white shirts, a singlet, a travelling rug, two photographs, and 7s 6d in money, of a total value of £4, from the dwelling of Herbert Jackson, of Riverton.

Chief Detective Herbert said the police here knew nothing of the facts, and he would ask that accused be remanded to appear at Riverton.

Mr Hanlon, who appeared for the ac- ■' I cusedj objected to a remand to Riverton in the meantime. Defendants were 1 mother and daughter, and prosecutor was the husband of the daughter. The young lady stated she had been subjected to a great deal of cruelty at the hands of ■ the prosecutor. Some proceedings were taken in Invercargill, and ultimately she had to leave him altogether. articles alleged to have been stolen (with the exception of the white shirts) were articles her husband had given her while - * they were friendly. The husband and ■ wife were living together, and the wife hnrl two or three articles in her possession which she took with her w&n she Jcf.t her husband. There was a diß-\ pute between the husband and wife, antL the mother had nothing to do with it,' 5 except that she went down ajid took her daughter away from the cruelty of ' the husband. He asked that a remand Should he granted in Dunedin for eight ' days that he might communicate with the prosecutor.

1 lie Magistrate thought that it was a "omplaint which would probably cool on - second thoughts, and it would be just as well to (rive every chance for a settleZn Thp cnse was remanded fin the ' Uli, and defendants were admitted to hoil on sureties of £lO each, and another surety of £lO in each case.