New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-10
A CHICAGO INCIDENT.
q savage Soap PeddIer's Fight with a
Woman-He is Scaided and Shot.

From the Chicago Times.l
A few days ago peddler, name un
known, called at the house of Mrs. Pete
Culine, ON Vernon avenue, near Thirty
seventh street. Mrs. Culine is the wife O
the Junior proprietor in the firm of Haynel
81 Culine, painters, No. 255 South Clarl
street The peddler was a large, powerful
fellow, black looking, and repulsive in ap
pearance.
When he asked Mrs. Culine to buy some
soap, she said she needed nothing, and
that his room was better than his com
pany.
ssWell, mum, yer needn't put on airs
for III go when Iget ready" was the inso
lent retort
Mrs Culine said she thought he had bet
ter go Immediately, and when he still per-
SISTED in acting insolently, she seized the
tea kettle and threw the boiling contents
over the soap peddler. Then he left, swear
ing, as he went out of the gate, all sorts OF
vengeance on the lady of the house.
On last Monday afternoon, the same ped
sdler went back to Mrs. Culine's house
during the absence of her husband. The
only occupantof the house was Mrs Culine g
little child, she herself being ont in the
barn washing clothes. She heard the little
dog barking, and fastened to the house to
ascertain the trouble. To her surprise she
saw the scoundrel seated on her own bed,
heavily on her little darling. She angrily
ordered him to leave the place. Whereupon
he said:
s.Leaye here not by id sight. You
had the. best of me once, and now I'll fix
you:n :
Mrs. Culine said she didn't mind the
words, but there was something in the tel
lows looks which struck terror to her soul.
Her first impulse was TO sink insensible on
floor, but then the thought of her child,
and of what might be her own sufferings,
gave her new life. She determined to do
all in her power to thwart the hellish de-
signs of the miserable. wretch who had thus
insulted her. Looking him full in the face,
she said:
"If you dare to touch me, will kill YOU"
The brute showed his fangs and started
: to close with his victim. There was look
of passionate hate and fierce desire in his
cold black eyes. His frame rose and
swelled with passion.
His hands were extended as if ready to
clutch the poor woman. With one spring
she reached the wood-box, and, picking up
an ak, tnrned toward her assailant and
struck him a powerful blow with the heavy
weapon. Stunned only for an instant, the
rascal sprang toward the good woman,
drawing revolver at the same time. Again
and again she struck him with the ak, when
he snapped his pistol three times at her.
Three times the hammer descended; but the
caps failed to explode. Mrs. Culine then
seized hold of the ruffian. Her sharp nails
sank deep into his burly neck. She had.
she says, the strength of dozen mothers.
1hey struggled hercely for the supremacy,
around the room, over chairs-everywher
The little baby awakened by the terrible
scuffte, commenced crying with allits might,
but the poor mother could do nothing for
its relief. Again the desperate villain man
aged to point the revolver toward the wo-
mans head. With the fierceness of despair
Mrs. .Culine succeeded in turning the muzzle
of the pistol toward her outrager. At the
same instant the hammer fell, tile charge
was fired, and the ball struck the peddler
full IN the neck, passing clear through that
part of his anatomy and lodged in the wall.
With a groan the man fell to the floor.
and then, reaching over to the cradle picked
up'a napkin, with which he endeayor to
stauncb the flow of blood. Then he
dragged himself out of the door through
the yard, and out into the street, and was
seen no more. Everywhere, however, he
left the marks of his fearful wound. A
great pool of blood was in the middle of
the room; the Threshold of the door was
CORY; the footpath leading to the gate gave
signs of the mans injuries. That he was
seriously if not MORALLY wounded, there is
no doubt. The ball in all probability
passed through either the. carotid artery or
the jugular vein.
Several police officers, as well as detee-
tives from headquarters, have been detailed
TO search the south end of the city for the
wounded villain. 1t is hardly possible that
he can long remain undiscovered
Mrs. Culine is deserving of great credit.
She displayed most extraordinary courage
and pluck.
Although a larger woman than the aver
age of her sex, she was in size nomatch for
the scoundrel who assaulted her. In speak
ing about the matter on yesterday she said
she wouldn't care if he-meaning the ped
dler-should come again.