Document Fragment View

Matching Fragments

1. The husband charged the wife with the attempted murder of her husband by prison.
2. He insulted her on more than one occasion and called her by the most vile epithet.
3. He treated her with loathing and disgust and abused her when she took some butter-milk to him, and he expressed his disgust by getting up from his unfinished meal.
4. He sent word through a servant that if she went back to him she would be dragged out by a pariah arid slipered.
5. He threatened her with violence by saying that he would hash her to pieces with a knife and allowed the second wife to abuse her and to say that she (meaning the first defendant) deserved to be made to stand up in the road and be spat on by passers by, (sic); it was enough that she had not wrung its (child's) neck and thrown it into the well and that if she touched the child again she would be beaten with a broom-stick.