Show police court notes peter gagich an an miner employed at the chef ch ef cons a mine mas as arrested last week for beating h s common law wife fhe the case came up for hearing in judge de wars ars chirt on saturday the woman accompanied by a small ch id 0 wh A h ch zag ch admitted be ng the ather appeared against h in gagich entered a plea of guilty to the corn com p aint wh ch charged him w th beat ing the woman lie ile sought to exas h myself by saying that in h s nat ve and it was by no means uncommon tor a man to live w th a woman without entering into a mar nage ceremony and that a man had a right to do as he pleased with h s wife even t tc beating her if it she d d not boey h in the local officers couldn coulden t see it that vay however and the court gentene ed him to pay a fine of and serve 60 days in jail he ile is no boarding at marshal church s hos delry |