Mexborough and and Swinton Times October 9, 1936

No Testimony Against Husband
Forgiving Conisborough Wife

“I think your wife is behaving very seriously to you,” said Col St Andrew Warde Oldham, chairman of the Bench, at Doncaster on Tuesday, discharging John R Herdus (52), miner, 15, Lesley Avenue, Conisborough, charged with inflicting previous bodily harm on Ethel Hurdus.

“This is because I don’t wish to make any statement,” said Ethel Herdus, “I have gone back to my husband. He is a good man out of drink.”

Police evidence was that Herdus return home drunk on the afternoon of September 16. He commenced shouting obscene language. He ate part of his dinner and thew the rest on the floor. He got hold of his wife’s throat and kicked her on the knee. She fell and was later removed to the Fullerton hospital where she was detained for 17 days.

Col Warde Oldham warned Herdus to keep off drink and to behave decently to his wife.