The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-20
LOCAL MATTERS.

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THE LATE CowHIDISG Casa sESsA-
TON IN COURT. THE continued case OF the
Commonwealth Us. Mrs. G. A. Smith, for
assaulting Mrs. Sarah NJ. Loops with a cow
hide, came up Yesterday morning in the Po-
lice CONTRACTING Police-Justice Crntch-
field presiding. From the number OF good
looking and well-dressed young ladies who
were preseutius witnesses stranger would
veryinaturally bavp supposed that case Of
unusual interest was being tried. Tie
prosecutrix, Mrs. Loops, was brunette.
with sad but very sweet face while the
|accused, Mrs. Smith, was a lady MANY years
her senior, with the SHOWS OF some tiftv.tiye
winters on her brow. i .ot.y. @I
The facts proved were briefly as follows:
Mira. Loops, who, though quite Youthful
{appareutly. not over twenty-one), is not
living with her husband, and has been sun.
porting herself and child by working at
Aliens tobaccp.faetoPy, ,on Franklin street.
Miss Smith, daughter OF the accused, also
works there: A. few days since Miss Smith
stated to one ,of the young-lady employees
that, she was going TO, walk home with MRS.
Loops that evening, whereupon Mrs. Loops
sent word to Miss Smith that she,had better
go with her lMrs. Loops's husband, as sue
had before gone with him to the Red Meh's
picnic, &c. Miss Smith hearing this, when
She went home at night Informed her
motherof it, but stated to her mother that
Mrs. Loops had applied very olprobrious
and insulting terms to her. Her mother,
believing. the statement OF her daughter,
went down to Aliens factory on the morn
ing OF the 10th and called. for Mrs. Loops,
and as soon as she made her appearance
used the cowhide, which she had carried for
the purpose, on the person Of Mrs. Loops,
leaving marks on her face, arms, &C.: :s'
Some four or five young ladies' were in-
troduced as witnesses by Miss Smith as to
the abusive language. attributed by her to
Mrs. Loops, but they all failed to corroDo-
rate her, DENYING having heard anything
that was, said. Mr.. Bidgood and severai
other gentlemen Of the factory heard the
assault, and as Miss Smith had no one to
prove that Mrs. Loops used one Improper
epithet on the OCCASION the plea OF 1ustlh-
cation or eXtenuation failed, and the Justice,
after ascertaning that Mrs. Smith was un-
able to pay heavier tine, tined Mrs.
Smith Sl0, with the remark that her age
only saved her from imprisonment. Mrs.
Loops; stated in her evidence that Mrs.
Smith. first required her to rctract what she
had said about her daughter, and before
she had time. to speak went to work with
the coWhide. J.. 49, ...- ..y..- I'll: ..:
Both Miss Smith and Mrs. Loops are
quite prettv! Miss Smith admitted in the
cross-examination that Mr.. Loops had cS-
corted her sister and herself in buggy to
the Red Mems picnic. some eight miles
from the city, where there was dance, but
that she did not dance with him. -! ,'
Mrs. Loops also stated that Mr.. Loops
had acted the cavalier to Miss Smith on
other occasions, but this Miss Smith denied.
Mrs. Loops, the prosecutrix, was repre-
sentcd by Mr.. A. Noise, Jr., and the ac-
cused by Mr.. II. A. Atkinson, Jr. The
courthouse was crowded during the eX-
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