Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-22
Il BRUTAL WIFE BEdTER.
He Gets Sixty Days in Jail, Which is Not
Half Enough.


Half Enough.
Mrs. Quinn is bride of three months. She
is not however. young and gushing bride, but
a matron who has trodden the thorny path of
mstrimony for the whole length of one hus-
bands life. Her second venture, however, was
more troublous and stormy than the first.
Quinn was morose and bad tempered, jealous
and irate and poor Mrs. Quinn was a martyr.
Her tale, as told to Judge Flint, was brief, but
potent with melting incidents. The narration
OF such wrongs as hers would li9uify even
harder material than flint. She said from the
second week of her second welded state Quinn
had been to her cruel husband, abusing her
and duarrelin0with her, and even striking her.
He seldom worked, and often drank, and when
he drank he was greater brute than his nature
made him. Last Sunday he had been very
quarrelsome. She went out in the evening to
milk the cow. There was little Dutch boy in
the stable with her, and Quinn came in raging
and Tuning in one of his tantrums.
Knocked over the milk and his
wife, abused her and accused her
of an unmentionable CRIME with the little
Dutch COW boy. She came to the police court
When she reached home the house was locked,
but soon she saw him coming. She took her
baby and tried to escape from him. He caught
her and thrust her back to the wood shed,
knocking her down. tearing off her skirts, and
half killing her. The husband declined to ask
any questions, but would like to make state
ment. He said he was terribly abused and
much to be pitied man. His wife was a shock
ingly depraved woman, guilty of all the vices
on the decalogue. Last Saturday she bought a
keg of beer, and wss drinking all day Sun-
day. In the evening she pretended to go out
to milk, and the ever solicitous husband fol
lowed her out to see no harm came to her. He
found the stable fastened inside. He forced
the door, and there lay his virtuous wife upon
he floor of the stable. And there was the lit
lie ten year old Dutch boy. The situation at
once revealed to him the whole shameful facts
and, of course. he was little reused by virtu-
GUS anger, and told her it was disgraceful
and she, as the wife of respectable
worthy citizen, should be ashamed of herself
On other occasions she had visitors she ought
not as faithful wife. One man comes t.
bring wine and liquor, and then she woulc
always ''pull down the blinds" He thought
he did once give her two or three gentle slap'
| on the ear, as wholesome connubial chastlse
ment, but that was all; he had submitted t.
his indignities with martyrs spirit and hae
| tried to reclaim her from her evil ways. Two
witnesses were called, who stated they knew
knothing of the circumstances but before the
material witnesses came into court judge
Flint said he had heard quite sufficient to sus
| tain the charge of the wife. He thought tn
ridiculous tale about the boy was alone enong
to give the lie to the whole story of Quinn, ant
after severely censuring his cOwardly and un
mannerly conduct he sentenced him to pay
fine of 500 and costs, and to find sureties II
5000 to keep the peace for six months, or il
! default to keep bachelors hall in jail for sixt
days. He went to jail. and but for the e.
pense of feeding his worthless carcass ougt
to be kept there for life.