The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-08
HOMES MADE INT0LERABLE.
HUSBANDS AND WIVES COMPLAINING
IN A Police COURT
Men Heating their spouses and n wiz A.
snui,inR her uusbnnd-A Fearful Recital
of Misery In Domestic Life In New York.


snuiiiuR her Husbnnd-A Fearful Recital
of Misery In Domestic Life In New York.
The police courts were all occupied with
marital fights on Saturday The most serious
case was that OF James Burke known rs tho
" Man-catrr." Of Is West Third street.
Burke killed n man named Allen Mt the
Fire Department repair shops on Elizabeth
street. 1t was accidentally done in n fight and
Burke was tried and acquitted. He married
Mary Halwick. and lived with her and her five
children. She kept II small grocery and sup.
ported him In idcncss. II IL said that he COM
PEELED her to give him two dollars day. De-
spite all this his conduct TO her was brutal IN
the extreme. She frequently had him arrested
but would never mnkGh complaint against MN.
She even threw her arms about MS neck, ana.
wounded ns she was kissed him. go
One day Inst week. Burke struck his wife with
pitcher. INJECTING severe lqcerated wound on
her arm. "" WAS arrested. hut she would not
prosecute. On Friday night he gave her II most
terrible beating. lle seized her by her long
Then he kicked aud pounded her black and
blue. Onorr Kenny arrested him.
that Of John Dufry OF 3ll Hudson street. He is
u laborrr. employed by the Street Cleaning De-
partmcnt. He went home drunk. and his wife
asked him Tor a little money To buy milk for tho
baby. His reply wps brutal assault. Hs
struck her n severe blow on the forehead with n
kicked her in tho abdomen. She lies in n pre-.
Curious condition in 81. Vincent Hospital.
Jeremiah Mummy n lonkSnOrffn1n OF IA
West Tenth street, and his wife Bridget Ind u
fight. He finally threw n Ratchet at'hcr. cutting
n gnsh In her head.
The fourth cuse is one Of husband beating.
virginia Bowman ~ l2ith street and First
avenue became. very morose lntcy on account
Of the supposed nildcity Of her husband John.
On Friday evening, when he returned homo
with the days marketing. she threw lighted
Kerosene lamp nt his head. II exploded and
burned him severely. Roundsmnn McEnroo
tried To arrest her and she attacked him.
scratched his fnce and pulled his hair. Justice
Fmmmrr committed her for examination us to
her sanity.
Two women were before Judge Kibrcth, each
calling herself the wife of Leo Gleason. butcher,
Of 80 Suffolk street. One lived in Suffolk
street. the other az 2i9 Enst Fify-ninth street
number of years ago Clemson met the Suffolk
street woman. was pleased with her, and they
| lived together. ~" fruit of their union being
three children. all of whom are dead. She ns-
sert- that h" always introduced her us his wife,
The other woman claims that Gleason married
her in 1873. She has one child.
The Suffolk street wife suspected from tho
frequent absences Of her husband. that ne mad
sOur attraction elsewhere. and following him
| 10 Illv-nlnth street her suspicious were verb
| He'd. The two women made common cause
against Gleason. and one Of them. armlng her
self with u carving knif". and the other with n
smoothing iron. attacked him on Friday even
| ing. He wns severely stabbed In the fOrchcnd Z.
and the noise aitra ting ia" attention of police
| officer. the two women were arrested. Gleason
| refused to prosecute. and the Fifty-ninth street
| wifi" WAS discharged. The suffolk street wife
WIS sent to prison for ten days.