DOMESTIC TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 297, 19 May 1914, Page 7

DOMESTIC TROUBLES.

I ! LEAD TO ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. • Christina Fen-is I'earce, a young married woman, appeared in the Magis- , irate's Court, Mew Plymouth, \"ostevday before Mr A. Crooke, S.M., to answer a charge of attempted suicide. | Detective-Sergeant Boddam, in oilt--1 lining the circumstances of the case, said that the accused was the wife, of a l very respectable, -hard-working young ' mail, and had one child. On Wednesday last she appeared to have had an altcrj cation with her husband, who was shavj ing at the time, and snatching up his j razor, made two gashes on her throat. jShe was taken to the hospital, where i sho received medical attention, her inj juries being comparatively slight. She j and her husband had become reconciled, i and he did not tlunk that the woman j would repeat her rash act, if she were j treated leniently. I Mr Crooke: What nude you do each j a foolish thing? | Accused: I had a little argument with Imy husband, and 1 did it just to j frighten him. I Mr Crooke: And you have made it up ■ with him ? j Accused: Yes. | The accused's husband corroborated ; her story, and said that there had been ' a complete reconciliation. | Accused snid that she had. never done | such a thing before, and had 110 intenj tion of doing so again. llis Worship convicted her and ordered her to come up for sentence when callj cd upffln within t'he next six months. 1 =====s