Particulars were given of " das hardly attack made ey a man on his wife in the Louza district on Friday night. Two men were charged, the husband and his brother, the com-int being that they threw vitriol at the wife, causing her serious bodily harm.
Det.-Sub-Insp. Roche prosecuted, and explained that the woman had fled to Shanghai from her husband. Meeting her in an alleyway he asked her to return, and upon reoeiring a refusal, he flung the contents of a bottle of vitriol upon her. Clothes burnt through by the acid were produced in Court, and it was further stated that the outrage was likely to cost the woman an eye.
'The husband was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and his brother to six months.
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