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(1) The husband charged the wife with the attempted murder of her husband by poison.
(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 meals.
(4) He sent word through a servant that if she went back to him she would be dragged out by a Pariah and slippered.
(5) He threatened her with violence by saying that he would lash her to pieces with a knife and allowed the second wife to abuse her and to say that she (meaning the 1st defendant) deserved to be made to stand in the road and be spat on by the passers-by, that it was enough that she had not wrung its (childs) neck and thrown it into the well and that if she touched the child again she would be beaten with broom stick.