Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-22
A KENTUCKIAN COMHIDED.
The Strange Adventure Of Mr.. Put.
hOH In Clncimnati.

Ine strange Adventure OF Mr.. Put-
hOH In Cineinnati.
Cincinnati Commercial. 10TH
Early yesterday afternoon the
neighborhood Of Fourth and Race
streets was enliyened by the spec
tacle of a cowhiding party, the
party whipped being old Mr.. Put
hoff, Of 1873 Race, and the thwacks,
which re-echoed far more than a
square by reason of their force,
were administered by a large elderly
woman. The weapon used was
about six feet long, and consisted
of little green withes bound to-
gether with a cord, after the fash
ion of a Roman licter's fasces. 1t
was a very formidable instrument,
and welded by an exceedingly
vigorous arm, SO that the assaulted
party deemed it best to flee. He
was overtaken several times and
severely damned, the woman ac-
companying every blow with
"Ah you give me my money; ah I!
you give me my money-you thief
you adulterer!" Finally the be-
labored individual managed to OBJ
tain refuge in Wells cigar store. A
large crowd gathered, and divers
interested bystanders, disappointed
at finding the fun so soon over, did
the utmost to induce the woman to
forcibly besiege the store, But a
patrolman came along and broke
up the assemblage by ordering the
woman away.
Her name is Baise, and she keeps
the little fruit stand at the corner
of Fourth and Plum. She is a
Frenchwoman, about fifty years of
age; pink,featured and well-pre-
served, with silyer.streaked hair
and sharp gray eyes, and is more
than ordinarily large and strong.
The history Of her grievance, as
stated to a Commercial reporter, is
about as follows:
She claims that Mr.. Puthof is of
German extraction, but resided at
Thionville, France, in 1854, where
he met Mrs. Baise, then probably
young and pretty. "He hafe den
wife and fammilee; and | lend to
him cinq cent francs to buy a pee
ano for his fammilee. He never
buy no peeano; but he run away
from the cOontree and come to
Neuve York with his fammilee
And it vas my mohney yioh took
| him to Neuye York. And he had
also wife and fammileee in de old
coontree.
"Den, ven he to Neuye York
come, he call heemself all kind Of
names-Mopsier Lasalle, and Herr
Wietrich, and lsbaum. But his
real name it is Gaspard-G George
Gaspard; and George Gaspard he
is scoondrell and an adulteerer.
And ven he in Neuye York-dis
George Gaspard-he was organiste
at St. AIMS church, and one call
him Isbaum. Oh, but he is a tiel
and a scOondrell.
even he COON here he leaf his
fammilee in Neuye York - run
away from dem; and he call him
self Puthoff-but hees name it j;
Gtaspard-George Gaspard. And
meet him after fifteen year, and ask
! him for my mohney; and he moi
want TO pay Oh, he is a dirty, bad
tief.
SHE cooms following after me
| all time; and | not want him.
want no mans. | am veuve. H(
cooms after me. VyY Because !
am woman; and he want that
should be NIT him life. He swim.
die me out all my mohnoy in de old
country, and he svindle my sohn
and he break up my business Oh
Central afenue, and he all time fol.
low after me. l viii keel him. Yes
/ viii keel him. He is married two
times, and vat for he follow after
me?"
Madame Baise was altogether toe
excited to relate all the circum'
, stances of her woes, but she gayC
us to understand that George Gas.
pard, alias Isbaum, alias DIETRICH
alias Lasalle, had swindled her ou
Of fifteen hundred francs; hat
committed bigamy; had driven he