Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-08-01
WOMAN BEATING.
The State of Nevada VI. Joseph
Hausman.

Breen's Maiden EROrt-He Strikes
from the Shoulder.
Joseph Hausman, charged with assault
upon and battery Of Mrs. McMullen, was
duly arraigned in the Justice Court yes
terday forenoon at II o'clock, Judge, Har-
mon presiding. District Attorney CARRIER,
counsel for the State, was joined in the
prosecution by Peter Breen. G. H. Hub
bard appeared as attorney for the defend
ant. A venire Of IS jurors had been sum-
moned to appear. Out Of this number
| only six we're left after excusing n chsl-
longing, but counsel on both sides agreed
to try the case with the half dozen: 8. 8.
Sloss, Samuel Eccles, William Mcmillan,
Charles Lovett, O. H. Sampson and Joseph
Maginni.
MRS. M'MuLLEN,
Being sworn, said that on Friday, July 20,
she was packing up to move out OF the
house Of Mrs. Aschim, on Monroe street,
opposite J.. Hsusman's residence, which
she had rented from the latter. On the
Sunday following she would have owed
him a balance Of S. rent, which she prom
ised to pay as early % she could. She was
packing up her things, and the drsyman,
Pete Lob, had his dray at the door to take
them away, when Hausman came and
ordered him not to do it. Hausman stood
at the front door. She went into the din
ing room and was picking up some knives
and forks to put them in a tub, when
Hausman came upon her and seized q
''toy pistol" which she had among the
knives and forks. THE pistol is a Smith
q Wesson seven shooter, and, though
with me to take it away and struck me
three or four times. He got the pistol
and then dragged me by the hair to the
door and pushed me down the stairs Of
Ave steps. When he had demanded his
rent and I had told him | did not have 1t,
but would pay him as soon a. l could, he
called me q s. Of q b. and threat
ened to break my back and Kill me. On
being c-ross-examined she said the pistol
was in with the knives and forks. After
he had beaten me he threw me into the
street. My face was bleeding and my
clothes were all over blood. l called him
hard names after he had so treated me.
On being redirectly questioned she said
she had nj thought OF going for the pistol
or cartridges that were in the drawer with
IT.; that she had never shot q pistol in her
life, and that she had no idea of shooting
Hausman.
@. W. TRAvERs
Swors that Pete, the drayman, whom Mrs.
McMullen said she had sent, came to call
him to the house. He went n saw Mrs.
McMullen 80 feet from the house. Her
hair was all disheveled and her face was
bloody. / drove up in the dray to the
door in front Of Hausman, who said, in
answer to my question why he had used
such violence, that Mrs. McMnllen owed
him SIS and she wouldn't pay; that he had
struck her and he would stand the con-
sequences; that he was willing to pay $50
for his act. The roman was terribly
abused and he threatened to annihilate
me if I wanted any Of it. gave him an
invitation to candidate" but he did not
accept. Mr.. Breen (interrupting-You
were a man.. 1t was the SIS debt that lay
at the bottom of his willingness to ''stand
the consequences" He pulled out a
pistol and said to me: "That's what she
pulled OH me-"
Testified that he thought he saw some
blood on the complaining witness face,
but, being under oath, and not being sure,
he wouldn't like to swear to it. He heard
the alter cation, Hausman insisting on
having the SIS at once and she saying she
would pay him, but not at once. He
would not permit her to take her things
and 60, nor would he allow her to stay. He
took off the door and windows from the
house. She had a scratch on her face and
/ thought blood. When asked by Mr..
Hubbard if Hausman and Mrs. McMullen
we're not q pretty good "stand off, as far as
.L-.o A xaolx ~tI1~ -a-t Ia oat1. Gnon,t
know about that. 10. is pretty good at it,"
JoHN t. BAKER
Met defendant in the Sherif's Office the
afternoon after the rumpus. He heard de-
PENDANT say then to others that Mrs. Nc
Mullen had drawn a pistol on him and he
had slapped her; that she had bilked him
and be was willing to pay $50.
D. II. SESSIONS
Was next called, and asked what Haus-
man had said to him in the way Of confess
sion. Witness stated that he, having
heard the rumpus talked about freely on
the street and thinking IL likely he would
be called on to report 1t, went and saw
HausmAn. who stated to him what was
published in the SENTINEL. Saturday. July
al. In substance Hausman stated, after
explaining the rent debt. etc., that he saw
Mrs. MoMullen going for her pistol and
trying to put q cartridge in 1t, whereupon
he rushed upon her. wrested the weapon
from her grasp by force. after which he
struck her : blow which knocked her teeth
out. When witness on that occasion asked
Hausman II he had actually knocked her
teeth out, he said he thought so any way,
for he saw the blood. running from her
mouth; and that after this he took her and
threw her into the street.
This closed the evidence for the prosecu-
ton, whereupon
MRS. coNTI
Was called 40 q witness for the defense.
She did not see the fray; she saw Mrs. Mo.
Mullen In front OF the house from her resi-
dence adjoining. She put her head out OF
the window. Saw no blood on her face,
and did not think there was any, although
there might have been.
Mr.. Lesser
after the row. added nothing to what had
been said already.
MRS. PLuMHorr
Said she witnessed from two doors away
the latter part Of the rumpus on the street,
all talk, and that she saw no blood on the
face Of Mrs. McMullen. although she had
q view Of one side Of her face only and
blood might have been on the other. II
she had been injured she could have seen 1t.
MRS. BROWN,
From her door, saw Hausman struggling
With Mrs. McMullen. She did not know
what IL was for, but supposed II was for
his IS, Laughter In Court. She saw
Hausmun put Mrs. McMullen down the
front Yteps ct q lively gait. The tussel
had alresdy begun when she saw them.
THE DEFENDANT,
JOSEPH Hausman, was then put on the
stand. He told Of his rent troubles with
his tenant. He went up to stop her
moving her things to make her pay the 50
balance due. She called him . s. Of . b.
and other vile names and would not pay.
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