The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-29
A Wife-Whipper in Trouble.
he is SET UPON BY PARTY OF ENRAGED WOMEN
AND THOROUGHLY DEMOLISHED.

AND THOROUGHLY DEMOLISHED.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin, of July %, says:-
Last evening about 8 O'Clock, an individual well
known to the police, named DOwner, made his
appearance at the police station with charge
OF assault with intent to kill, against number
OF his nelghbors. Downer was a sorry yookIng
Object-bis looks giving the truth 10 the asser-
tion that he had suffered some hard usage. His
clothes were torn, and thoroughly soaked with
Water-hls iace was scratched, and he held in his
hands bundles Of his hair and whIskers, which,
he said, bad been pulled out. Notwithstanding
DoNner's character for peace was against him,
and his breath smelt very strong OF whisky, the
authorities felt that no citizen, either foreign or
to the manor born, should suffer such indlgni.
ties TO be heaped upon him. aud Lieutenant
Kendrick listend to Dogner's story.
He was sitting in his house, down on the
beach, quietly, dong nothing at all to break
the peace, when who should come in but all the
women that lived about there, and, before he
said word, they assautei hun with clubs, and
sticks, and guns, and beat him TO jelly. He
knew al the women, aud he wanted them
arrested and punished.
A gentleman had been on the beach for an
evening promenade, when his attention was
attracted by loud CRIES which came from knot
OF sbanties some distance away. Upon golug to
them he found that Downer was mdulging
his usual Sunday evening amusement of whip-
ping his wife, and the woman, suffering from
the blows, was uttering most hear ttrendIDg cries.
The gentleman, well aware OF the danger of
Interfering betwee husband and vile when
quarrellng, nevertheless was about to Interfere,
when his attention was called to the actions OF
woman who looked as though size had the
strength of a young Samson Ill her limbs. She
ran from shanty TO shanty, calling out the
women, who suddenly responded and IT did not
seem to be more than ten seconds before
dozen were assembled, each armed with a
mop, a broom, tre-shoveI, or par OF
tongs. The band marched directly to the house
from whence came the cries, and without the
ceremony OF knocking entered. The gentleman
followed, deeply interested. There was sound
OF voices, as if somebody was ordering some
body else out of his house in very coarse Ian
guage, sadly mixed up with oaths. Then there
was general onslaught upon the wife whlDper.
Mops that had been soaked in dirty water
swabbed his face, bio IS from broOms Came
thick and fast upon his head The a>tonlShed
wite-whipper dropped the subject OF his blows,
and looked to his own safety. He s;rucK a. one
of the women with his list, aud this brought up
the rear-guard of fre-sh0vels and tongs. On
his head came the blows thick and fast He
grappleG with one OF the women. The rest i'm
medlately dropped their weapons and g1apoled
with him. Strong they Were-thelr union per
feet, and their cause just. They iairly cratched
Downer upon the floor, and scratched him up
again. They left the imprints OF their nails
upon his face and hHLds, and neck. They
pulled out his hair. Resist he tried to, but he
was as Guild in the hands of the strongarmed
women and he soon found it out. Cowed,
beaten, demolished, he beloved like mad bull,
and begged that they would not xiii hun.
A parleY folio we'd "a truce they call II in war
times. The PROSTATE, thoroughly cowed iudi-
vidual was tod that his abuse of his wite-a
poor, sickly woman-had grown to be NUS
ance which could no longer be submitted to-
They had complained of hun; but his wife re-
fused 10 appear against him, ana he had gone
unpunished. If he would promise never to
strike his wife again, they would let him go; If
not, they would punish him till there was not
a breath of lite lett in his body.
DoWner was ready tor anything be was
already the worst whipped IN an to be found.
He promised-promised faithfully as man
could promise; out they brought cross and
they made him swear. He rebelled at this; but
the upraised mops and brooms, and sho2els,
and the clanking of pair of ,ongs, brought
him TO bis senses-and never did man take an
oath more earnestly.