Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-30
WIFE WHIPPER IN TROUBLE.
He is Set Upon by n Party of Enra-e,
women and Thoroughly Demolished.


From the Milwaukee Wisconsin, July 20
Last evening, about o'clock, an Individual
well known TO the police, and named Dowper
made his appearance at the police station with
charge OF assault with intent to Kill! against a
number OF his neighbors. Downer was sorry
looking object-his looks giving the truth tC the
assertion that he had suffered some very hard
usage. HIS Clothes were torn, and throughly
soahed with water: his face was Scratched and
he held in mis- hand bundles Of his halr aud
whiskers, which he said had been pulled out
Notwithstanding Downer's character for peace
was against him, and his breath smeIled very
strong OF whiskey, the authorities felt that no
citizen, either foreign or to the manor born.
should suffer such indignities 10 be heaped
upon MIN, and Lieutenant kendrick listened to
Downer's story.
He was sitting in his house, down on the
beach, quietly, doing nothing at all TO break
the peace, when who should come in but an
the women that lived about there and before
he said word. they assaulted him with clubs
ana SUCKS and guns and brick bats and beat
him 10 Jelly. He knew all tue women, and
ne wanted them arrested and punished
The story was a most improbable one tho
officer saw at a glance, and one tAst no doubt,
could be told by the other party in a different
tpot to investigate the affair, wien a well.
known ciuzen came in, and told the story in
manner which did not add much to the credit
Of Downer.
The gentleman had been on the beach for an
evening promenade, when his attention was
attracted by loud cries, which came from a
knot OF shanties some distance away. Upon
going 10 them, he found that Do|ner was in
oulging in be usual Sunday amusement of
whipping his wife, and the woman suffering
from the blows was utteriDg the most heart
fendlng cries The gentleman. well aware OF
The danger OF interfering between husband and
wife when quarrelling, nevertheless W as about
To interfere, when hrs attention was called 10
the actions OF a woman who looked as though
limbs.
She ran from shanty 10 shanty. calling ont
the women, who suddenly responded, and il
did not seem 10 be more than ten seconds
before a dozen were assembled each armed
with mop, broom, fire-shovel, or a pair OF
fongs. The band marched directly 10 the
house from whence came the cries. and with
out the ceremony OF knocking, entered. The
gentleman followed, deeply interested. There
was a sound Of voices, as IL somebody Were
ordering somebody else out OF his house in
very coarse language, sadly mixed up with
oaths. Then there was a general onslaught
upon the wife.whipper. Mops that had been
soaked in dirty water swabbed his face: blows
from brooms came thick and fast upon his
head. The astonished WIFE whipper dropped
the subject OF his blows and looked TO his own
safety.
He struck at one ofthe women with his fist,
and this brought up The rear guard Of fire.
shovels and tongs. On his head came the blows
thick and fast. He grappled with one of the
wemen. The rest Immediately dropped their
weapons and grappled with him. Strong they
were-their union perfect, and their cause Just
They fairly scratched Downer TO the floor and
scratched him mp again. They left the i'm
prints OF their nails upon his face. hands, and
eeck. They pulled out his hair. Resist he
trled to, but he was as a child in the hands Of
the suohg.armed women, and he soon found
u out. Cowed, beaten, demolished, he bel
lowed like mad bull, and begged that they
would not kill him.
A pariey folsowed-a truce they call it in
war times. The PROSTATE, thoroughly cowed
individual was told that his abuse Of his wife
poor, sickly woman, had grown TO be a nui.
sance which could no longer be submitted TO-
They had complained Of him, but his wife re-
fussd to appear against him, and had gone
unpunished. II he would promise ,yer 10
strike hts wlfe again, they would lei hi a 20: IL
rot, they would punish him until here was
not breath of life left tn his body.
Downer was ready for anything; he was al
ready the worst whipped man to be for nd. He
promised--promised faithfully as a man co aid
promise; but they brought q cross, and tn "
made him swear. He rebelled at this: bl the
appraised mops, and brooms, and shoyels, an
the clanking Of pair of tongs, brought him 20
his senses, and never did man take an O ,tb
more earnestly.