Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-07-12

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Wounds Hts wife.
James Evans, who lives near the mouth
Of Goodwin Canyon, has q wife and four
small children, the youngest Of which Is q
babe still at the mo theirs breast. Officers
Ticket and Mayor were called to his house
yesterday morning at l o'clock to arrest
hi and save the life Of his wife, whom he
had beaten in the most brutal manner and
was threatening to kill. They went up
and brought Evans down to jail. The
story of the shocking affair is told us by
Owen Rice, an elderly geptleman who
livos near by the Evanses, and whose &C
count We believe TO be correct. He says
that James Evans has been working on
the Dundcrberg dump; that be sold some
ore recently for q few dollars, on which he
has been roaring drunk ever since the
Fourth Of July; that whenever he gets a
little money he gets on q spree and abuses
his wife; that he has beaten her repeatedly
without mercy, on such occasions leaving
her body and face all black and blue from
the effects of his brutal blows; that he has
kept her in constant terror, threatening to
finish the beastly job sometimes by killing
her outright; that on the occasion Of the
last hauling he gave her, she still had the
marks OF his hands upon her from q pre-
vious beating he had given her, when he
BACKED both her eyes. He says that Mrs.
Evans is far from deserving any but the
kindest treatment from her liege lord; that
she is q sober, Woodworking woman, de-
voted to the care OF her children, worthy
in all respects, and is in no way to blame
for the torture she undergoes.
At the hour mentioned yesterday morn
ing the Oldest Evans boy, about 10 or II
years Of age, came running to Mr.. Rice's
house crying and begging him to come
over to the Evans house, saying: "Papa's
got the jimjams, and he's killing mammal
Mr.. Rice hurried over and tore the mad
brute away from his helpless and moaning
victim, but not before he had seized a
lumber and had hurled it at her head.
The tumbler was smashed into small
pieces by the blow, for he aimed the mis-
sile we'll, and fragments Of glass we're left
embedded in the skin Of his wife's fore
head.
The maddened brute, called husband,
then undertook to punish Mr.. Rice for in
terfcring, but we are glad 70 state that he
got such q choking as he will remember as
long az he lives. He begged like a cur for
mercy such as he denied his own wife, and
being allowed to rise from the floor came
down town in quest OF more whisky. He
was intercepted and taken to jail by the
officers named.
Mr.. Rice brought Mrs. Evans with the
blood streaming down her clothes to DR..
Hagar's drug store, where he tells us it
took an hour and a half to extract the
many small pieces OF glass from the
wound in her head and properly dress it.
This is a plain statement of what we be-
lieve to be the facts of this disgracefnl
case. Mr.. Rice. as a neighbor, felt out
ragged by Evans brutality and came to the
SENTINEL office to give us the details and
asked that they be published to let the
know what a monster is living
in our midst under the name Of husband
and father. This we would have done
without a word from Mr.. Rice, but we are
grateful to him for the particulars by
which we are enabled to make the exposure
more wholesome and complete.
What will be lone with Evans by law
we cannot say. His wife should, for the
sake OF herself and her children, and hu-
mainly at large, make a complaint against
him for, at least, assault and battery, the
penalty for which he would doubtless be
made to suffer to the fullest extent. She
may not do this, however, as she is afraid
he will kill her then surely, as he has 30
often threatened to do. II she should fail
to complain against him, it will become
the duty OF Owen Rice, or some other
neighbor who knows the facts OF his biu-
tally, to see that he does not escape prose-
cution.
Should the law fail to reach him a rail
aud tar and feathers might be resorted to
with very wholesome effect.