Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-13
INHUmAN


His Wife Almost to Death.
AL. Skinner, the swarthy athlete, was ar
rested yesterday and locked up in the
County Jail on a charge Of assault and
battery, for having beaten his wife early in
the morning nearly unto death. Skinner,
1t appears, had found his wife, formerly a
woman Of the town, known as Stella, in q
clearinghouse over a saloon on Main
street, about A O'Clock, in company with q
man whom she had served with something
to drink, acting in the capacity of q
waitress. Without ceremony he dealt the
little frail woman q terrible blow on the
mouth, which knocked her down in the
corner. Meanwhile her male companion
had fed. Skinner picked his wife up.
washed the blood from her face and com
| PEELED her to go home with him, their place
of residence being on Adams street, or
the west side of Mob Hill. The woman,
in mortal fear Of her life, followed her
! dread lord like a little lamb going to the
slaughter. On arriving at the house, he
proceeded 10 whip the woman until, as he
himself.brutaliy acknowledges, he thought
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| the floor. Not satisfied with the punish
ment he was able to infict upon his
helpless wife with his fists, he picked up .
piece OF mahogany wood and struck her
with it four or five times, inficting some
terrible injuries. Yet during all this mall
treatment the poor woman never uttered q
cry for fear OF being murdered outright by
her inhuman husband. Having beaten
her to his hearts content, and probably
even sickening at his own monstrous
work, he left the house with the woman
in an insensible condition, lying bathed in
her own blood. In this condition she was
found later in the day by some female
friends. The room presented the scene of
q tragedy. The fragile victim was scarcely
breathing and unable to move. while all
about her was q mass of blood. Her
friends had her conveyed to the house OF
Lizzie Nuttall, on lower Buel street, where
DR.. Huntington examined her injuries and
found them to be very dangerous, if not
fatal. A SENTINEL reporter visited the in
jured woman last night. He found her
surrounded by sympathetic friends who
were kindly. ministering to her wants. She
was very low, aud spoke with a painful ef-
fort. From head to foot her body exhibit
ed marks Of extreme violence. Her head
is cut in several places as with q knife, and
her lower lip is badly swollen. Her right
arm above the elbow is nearly broken, and
her left shoulder and side has been beaten
to a purple color. One OF her legs is also
cruelty beaten, and the knee-cap is proba-
bly, fractured. These are some OF the prin-
cipal injuries, which, if not fatal, will keep
the unfortunate woman in bed for some
months to come. The cause OF this inhu-
man brutality is supposed to have arisen
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I" Stella" as she is Familiarity known
among her class, bad made arrangements
to procure a divorce from her brutal hus-
band on the grounds Of adultery and ex-
IRENE cruelty. The crime of adultery,
Mrs. Skinner alleges, was committed with
some servant girls on Mob Hill, whom
Skinner is said to have seduced, and the
OF this fact, OF which she 'ac-
cused him last Saturday, is said to have
been the prime incentive for his savage
conduct. However questionable the posi-
ton or conduct of the woman, her brutal
by her quasi husband" is a
crime of such q nature that it should be
visited with condign punishment. 1t is a
disgrace to our boosted civilization; 1t is q
libel on our churches and schools to allow
such affairs to occur in our community
time and again without some effort
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fact that Skinner has repeatedly
whipped his wife, a delicate woman Of less
than 100 pounds weight, and not even a
complaint lodged against him, for fear, it
is alleged, that he would end the ex-
istence of any one doing SO. An entire
stands awed and breathless
the threats Of a bully-a woman
whipper.
Since the above is in type, we learn that
he charge Of assault and battery against
skinner was reduced to a simple dis
by Assistant District Attorney
John T. Baker, and the prisoner allowed
go free without a trial on the payment
II $50. Was there ever such q mockery
# justice as this in Eureka2 A woman |
ying at the point Of death from NAL
treatment, and her cowardly assailant
to escape on the paymentof thirty
dollars In China such a proceeding
would not surprise US, but in America it
8 humiliating to record it. But will it
nd here? /,