The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-09
Temperance Reading .
WHAT Drink WILL DO.
The Ruin whisky Made In Once Happy
Family.

WHAT BRINK WILL DO.
The Ruin whisky Made In Once Happy
Family.
Richard Needing, thirty-seven years
of age, was arraigned in the Harlem
Police Court yesterday morning He
was charged on the returns with being
drunk and disorderly, but in her testi-
mony Mrs Ella Rex, who resides at No
9S5 Washington avenue, Morrisania,
told an extraordinary story Mrs Rex
is a charitably-inelined lady of dimin-
utive stature, and is member of the
Morrisania Methodist Church. She,
with Others, formed q Helping Hand
Society, having for its object the assist
ance OF the poor and needy in Nor
risania, and it was while on one of her
charitable missions that she witnessed
the brutal conduct of the prisoner in
East Observation-Disclosures street.
near Elton avenue. While Mrs. Rex
was telling her story the prisoner, whose
features bore traces of long-continued
dissipation, listened with flushed face
and trembling limbs He is said to be-
of very respectable family,
Mrs. Rex said that she had known the
prisoner and his wife for the past nine
years, the latter being one of her inti-
mate friends. During that time she did
not believe NEEDING had been sober for
q single day, and he had at last brought
his family, consisting of wife and four
children, to the verge of starvation.
Sometimes he would bring home few
dollars and give to his wife, but in an
hour or two afterward would demand
it from her, and, if she refused, would
beat her until she gave it up. For
months past, up to the time of her
sickness, Mrs. NEEDING had supported
the entire family by her sewing ma
chine, and he had done nothing. The
Helping Hand Society had been taking
care of his wife during her sickness
and providing the family with food. As
Mrs. Needing was soon to become "a
mother and was in a very weak state,
Mrs. Rex frequently sat by her bedside
to attend her. She had been with her
friend last Tuesday afternoon, as it was
believed that she was on the eve of con-
finement. The husband had left the house
liz a partial state of intoxication, and the
invalid had been made as comfortable
AS circumstances would permit AT
seven o'clock in the evening Mrs Rex
was about to 60 to her own home for
an hour or two, preparatory to sitting
up all night with her friend,
when the uncertain footsteps of
the husband were heard on the stairs.
Entering the room, he staggered up
to the bed, and, looking first at his wife
and then at Mrs. Rex, said huskily:
Saint you dead yet? | thought YOU
would be, buried before [ got back
Then, according to Mrs. Rex, whether
Intentionally OF in drunken abandon, he
flung himself upon the bed and upon tho
body of his wife. Mrs Rex SAYS he
also tried to take his wife by the throat
Mrs. Rex says she sliced NEEDING, and
Iby exerting all her strength managed
ito pull him from the bed and fling him
upon the floor. A doctor was at once
summoned and every attention was paid
the suffering woman. Before the ply
jsician arrived the witness said that
NEEDING threatened to kill her, anC
started for small bedroom to get his
razor. Fearing that her own lie al
well as that OF his wife was in danger,
Mrs. Rex rushed out of the room and
an to the observation-disclosures
street police station. Two policemen
were sent back to the house with her,
and Needing was arrested. He was
crazed with drink. Mrs Rex found tho
razor on the bed of the room tho
prisoner had entered, and showed it to
Justice Morgan.
In reply to the questions of the JUS
tice, Needing said he was no. drunk, and
intended no harm to his WIFE, The
razor he wanted to shave himself with
Policeman James Z. Conklin, of the
mounted squad, who made the arrest,
testified that Needing was drunk when
he (Conklin) was called 10 the house,
and that he appeared to be out of his
head.
This is the most extraordinary and
inhuman case that has been brought be-
fore me during my entire career as u
;police magistrate, y said Justice Morgan,
as he looked at the prisoner. 1.-THE
charge against you is only for beng
drunk and disorderly. On this / will
fine you ten dollars, but I will also hold
you in the sum of one thousand dollars
to keep the peace for six months, in de
fault of which you go to the island for
six months. There is just where you
belong, and by right ought to have been
sent long ago, and am very sorry that
the law prevents me from sending you
there for a longer period. This is the
most brutal outrage | ever heard OF.
Take the prisoner away
A reporter OF the Herald who inquired
for Mrs. Meding's residence in East
Northumberland sixty-first street later
in the day found that the family occu-
pied two rear rooms on the second story
of two-story frame cottage near Elton
avenue. When she asked, in excited
tones, of the reporter what had been
done with her husband, and was in
formed, the sick woman sighed:
tBut | am glad he has been sent away
to the island" she said. ''He can not
harm me now or iniure the children
have lived in constant terror of my life
for years past, but now it is over and
can rest Drink has made him insane,
/ know, and | wish he might be sent
where he could be treated for that fear
full malady. My friends will try to OBJ
tain separation for me, and | desire it,
for [ can not live with him any longer
Little by little he has gone down, until
now no one respects us, and ] and my
children are forever disgraced His
people have done all they could for him,
but it was of mouse He lost one position
of trust after another, until now he can
not obtain work anywhere. / have kept
starvation from the door for us all until
/ was taken sick, but now don't know
what will become Of us
Mrs. Meetings. parents will remove
her to their home. Up to late hour
yesterday afternoon her husband rela-
tives had not been informed of the
trouble he had brought upon himself
and family. ~ T. Her0Jd.
THE Cincinnati saloon-keepers are
terrible sticklers for personal liberty
but they want it all on their side. 1t
has been the custom of certain poor
women to keep coffee stands at the pub
lie markets The saIoon-keepers have
organized tn break nm this huSiupsS