SHOCKING CRUELTY.
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Melboubnb, Deoenjth«g !^r s t i At Gollingwood Police Court on Tuesday, James Eußsell, baker's as» ; aistant, was prosecuted for brutally illtreating his wife. The polioe called evidence that Russell went home on Saturday evening in a drunken state' and ordered his wife to get tea ready. The table did not suit his taste, and he threw the hot contents of the teapot at his wiie. He followed that up by kicks and blows, and as she is enoiente bis violence may yet have a dangerous result. Mrs Russell, who" is only twenty-one years old and very frail, appealed to her husband for mercy. He caught the baby, 18 months old, by the heels, swung it round his head as though to strike her with it, and flung it out into the yard - as a oat might have been thrown. Then he dragged the mother out of the house and proceeded to demolish the furniture. The ohild was thrown on its head with great force. The Benoh remarked that their only regret was they could not make the punishment more severe for assaulting his wife. Russell was fined £lO or 8 months' imprisonment, and for the asßault upon the child was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment additional without the option of a line.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3992, 18 December 1891, Page 2
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220SHOCKING CRUELTY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3992, 18 December 1891, Page 2
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