Cyril Arthur MeLellan, employed] in the P. W. D., said that he was married on March 24, year His wife then was living in Dixwell Road with her mother and brother, earning her living ax a dressmaker and milliner. As judged by letters from her parents she had not previously been married. He had; received her papers from the Burea of Foreign Aft About eight months ago his wife] complained to him that someone had spoken to her in Range Road. She said then it was not anyone she knew. He gave her a police whistle in case she should require assistance. On the occasion of a Russian Ball at the Carlton Cafe the complainant put his foot in She took no notice, but in'answer to witness's question she said it was the same man who had spoken to her in the street.
jess" then arked him for an He again spoke to comin the street some time Dut compl took _no mounted his bicycle and rode away.
Eventually _witress a where complainant lived and, with his wife, went to see him.' Mrs. MeLellan challenged him With frefovently speaking to her and he replied that he did not know her. She asked him why then he always spoke to her He retorted in Russian:—"Go to she devil. I don't Know who you are." At the same time he pushed her. any Woman Would", "When he spoke like that to my old lady, of course, like any woman would, she pulled eff her shoe and swiped him one" said witness, adding:—"T am a bit of an Irishman and T thought 'Tam going to make move? So I caught hold of him and he punched at me cud I pun ed at him. We both hit each other he' tore my shirt and I tore his Here is my chiri=it was the early "part of the woak. (Loud Then Mrs. Bittel-came fight here?
Let's go out and fight?"
Witness debied that "a spanner' was used or that complainant mentioned it then or at the police station.
Asked by Mr. Wing why, after warning complainant at the Carlton Cafe, he did not "let sleeping dogs: lie." witness said he wanted an. explanation. "He intended getting feomplainant to say that he would not speak to her again. The statements about a spanner being used Jas a weapon were pure inventions. He had no chance to prevent his wife striking complainant, as it sll happened so quickly.
Answering the Magistrate, wit-nets admitted an error of judgment in taking his wife to complainant's house, but said that his only idea when he went there was to arrange a peaceable understanding.
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