THE WAY TO TREAT A DRUNKEN HUSBAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1686, 14 January 1888, Page 2

THE WAY TO TREAT A DRUNKEN HUSBAND.

The Dubbo Dispatch (N.S.W.) of the 4th ult. has the following account of a husband-beating incident:—An amusing affair has occurred at Hay between man and wife. A man, it is alleged, beat his wife, and she took out a warrant against him. For some time he kept away, but recently came to town and went to his wife’s place in a state of liquor. His wife tied his hands behind his back, stripped him naked, and then beat him with a rope and a whip. Then she painted him red, and whipped him out. She informed the police, who took him in charge, and he was sent to gaol by the Bench for assaulting his wife. The following is the wife’s evidence“ I was lying down on my sister's bed when he came into the bedroom. I exclaimed: ‘Hullo! What do you want here?’ He then said: ‘lf you ain’t coming out of this house I have come to give you a good hiding. 1 I said, ‘No, you don’t,’ and got off the {bed and seized him by the neck. 1 threw him back on the bed and tied his two hands behind him with a handkerchief. I took a strap and a piece of rope that were on the floor and tied his feet to his hands. I then told him to take off his clothes, but he said he would not, but for me to take them off. I then got an old shirt of my brother-in-law’s, without sleeves, and a petticoat of my own, and put them on him. I then got some' red paint and a brush and painted his face and head all over. I then dragged him outside and thrashed him with a piece of rope. I thought that did not hurt him enough and I got a whip and thrashed him with that until he cried out 1 Murder.* One of Mr Haines’ blacksmiths came round, and my.husband walked into the house and put on his trousers, shirt, and coat, and came out at the door. J then thrashed him through the gate with the whip, and I did not see him till now.” The husband appears Vo have been a quarrelsome bully, a nd had assaulted others as well as his wife on several occasions. Of course he was drunk when he fell into her hands on this occasion.