SHOCKING CASE OF BRUTALITY.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 428, 13 February 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

SHOCKING CASE OF BRUTALITY.

On Thuisday evening last the residence in the vicinity of l>rookstown, near Wallsend, weie startled by rounds of pieicmg shneks, pioceeding fiom a hut near the township. On a pel son going neai the hut he found it was a man assaulting a woman in a most violent manner. Infounation was at once given to constable Lennaul that a man was killing his wife. The constable luinied to the scene. On leadimg the place he saw a woman m a. half sitting, half-lying postuie, uttcily nude, and a man standing o\ei her with the head of a lumah.iwk in his hand. The poor \\om:m was liteially weltering in a pool of hei own blood, which was flowing fiom wounds on vaiious parts of her body and head ; and as she made faint efforts to use, she was on each attempt knocked back by the man, her head striking against the wall of the hut. The woman could not see, as her eyes were swollen to a very gieat extent, and her haii u^ all over her face; but bhe knew

constables Lennard's voice, and cried to him, " Take him away," meaning evidently her husband. The husband denied having inflicted the wounds on his A\ife, and said they weie done by a miner. The woman called out, "You did it yourself; for God's sake Mr. Lennard take him away. She then fell back in an unconscious state, and was attended by some of the bystander. Constable Lennaid proceeded to arrest the husband, but the latter resisted until the constable showed some little instrument, and he then submitted quietly to be handcuffed. At the recommendation of Dr. Schraeder the woman was conveyed to the Newcastle hospital.