The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-26
He'll Seems TO Have Turned Loose a
Devil.
The Demon Jealousy Creates Mad.
man.
Innocent and Helpless Wife Unmerci-
fully Beaten.
Senseless and Besmeared With Her
Own Blood,
Would Have Been Dashed Upon the
Pavement,
But for the Screams of Her Little
Girl.
Her Chances for Life Questionable,

GALVESTON. July 4.-[special.l-Last
night about II o'clock, as Mrs. Hanson,
dressmaker and milliner, was sitting on the
steps of her residence, on Sixteenth street,
between Post-office and Church streets,
conversinl with Mr.. Killeen, an inmate of
her house, she was suddenly confronted by
John Hanson, her husband, and man
named Wilson. Hanson, fired by the
demon of jealousy, approached her with
the remark my name is Hanson, Cd
d-n you;" and jumped at his wife quick as
a flash, seized her by the throat and threw
her onto the sidewalk, and then jumped
on her and brutally beat her until she was
insensible, when he left her, and accompa.
MED by Wilson, entered the house and pro
ceeded to her room and threw his trunk
down stairs. In the meantime Mrs.
Hanson had been conveyed to her
room and resto.L:i7es applied, and
had just recovered consciousness
when Hanson and Wilson burst in
to the ROOM and the former dragged the
suffering woman out Of bed and again beat
her fearfully about the face and body, in
which he was aided by Wilson. In the
progress of his demoniacal work, Hanson
d rev knife and gashed his wife horribly
across the forehead, then picked up her in
sensible form and carried her to the bal
cony with the intention of throwing her
body into the street, when Dolly, her little
en-year-old daughter, who had been rem
5ered speechless by fright, seeing her insen-
sble mother borne away, gave piercing
scream, when Wilson rushed in and seized
the child by the throat and struck her sew
eral blows across the face with the remark,
'I'll teach YOU, you little heifer, to holler."
The man Killeen, who was talking with
Mrs. Hanson when approached by her hus-
band and Wilson, anticipating trouble,
heard Ssns tn the brutes throw the e. trunk
down stairs he slipped out and hurried
after policeman. Hanson and Wilson be
coming alarmed at their brutal work and its
results, took the insInsible woman back to
her room, threw her on the bed and at
tempted to make hasty exit from the
house, when they were confronted by
Officer Warren and large crowd attracted
there by the piercing screams OF little
Dolly, and taken into custody and lodged
in jail. At the preliminary examination
this morning before the recorder. little
Dolly's recital of the shameful treatment to
which her poor mother had been subjected,
caused murmur of indignation to ripple
through the courtroom, and when at last
the little one burst into tears and could go
no further, determined look seemed to
settle upon the faces of many OF those pres
ent, and ominous looks were cast in the di-
rection of the prisoners. The poor woman
who has been SO outrageously treated is
said to be in deplorable condition. DR..
West, who is attending her, says il will be
several days before she will sufficiently re-
cover from the effect of the punishment re-
ceived to fully recognize those about her.
A fearful cash, fully an inch and half
long, extends across her forehead, made by
knife in the hands of her husband: Sew
eral OF her teeth have been knocked out,
her face and body sadly disclose one mass
of bruises and her throat bears the i'm
prints of Harson's hands when he attempt
4 d TO choke her, and contains a cavity
caused by the contraction of the flesh on
either side, large enough to permit the en-
trance of ones little finger. The two be-
ings who committed this terrible deed are
Hanson is a cotton screwman and the occu-
patton OF Wilson is unknown. Judge Fon-
taine committed them in ST. 900 bail each
to await the action OF the grand-jury.