The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-06
How Women TEMPER Justice.

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1t is q singular fact said May Or's
Clerk McClery, s'but nevertheless true,
that nine out Of every ten women who
have their husbands arrested or make
information against them for cruelty
either Withdraw the the charge OF pay
the fine. Only last week we had a case
of a man who was habitually drunk and
known as wife beater. The wife
brought suit and then wanted to Witha
draw it, but was not allowed to do 50,
as some of the neighbors told us that
IT would be a blessing il the man was
sent to the Ts.ork-honse. The man was
fined $40 and costs or thirty days.
NJ after that woman and a mum
Der of neighbors had testified TO the
acts of cruelty, the duJiful wife paid
the fine. She had not a cent III the
world, but said when she paid over the
money, that she had borrowed it from
!, fourteen of her neighbors, in one case
getting ofiy twenty-five cents. There
were tears III 'nes eyes. Uts / don t EEs,af,ssn
what caused them. They might have
been shed on account of parting with
the money, and it might be that she
was sorry her husband was going home
with her There's no telling what q
woman will do.''
At the Central Station few nights
safr - r,r I, "a
up for beating her. She followed with
the officers, and when the iron doors
closed with a bang she changed com
pletely and begged piteously that he be
allowed to go home with her. II II cries
were not needed. At the hearing the
next morning she was present, and the
payment Of a $40 fine for the man that
had struck her seemed to please her as
much as a new toy does a child. The
police officers are always careful about
arresting man who is complained OF
by his wife, for the woman will seldom
appear against him.
Never interfere with q family quar-
rel, said an old officer. 1.-The OILY
only time | WAS ever beaten was
through trying to save woman from
being beaten by her husband. It was
on the South Side. was passing along
the street and heard the shrieks of a
woman. In the yard in the rear Of the
house was a big IrishInan beating his
wife. / jumped over the fence and
dragged the man off and handled him
pretty roughly, as he fought me. As
soon as the woman realized that her
husband was in the clutches Of an Of
fcer she came at me, and between both
man and woman / was badly beaten and
my uniform ruined. Never interfere
in a faulty quarrel until it is reasonably
certain that one OF the parties is too far
gone to Fight you.n
Once in a long while the usual order
of things viii be changed, az it was on
the South Side on Monday. b woman
named Magee was arrested at the in
stance of her husband, who said she
was continually drunk, and That he
could do nothing with her. The man
begged Alderman FIach to give his
wife long term, 50 she would get good
and sober. At the hearing the man
told how bis wife gotdrunk and abused
him. So the Alderman gaze her thirty
days at the Work house. Magee de-
parted perfectly satisfied, but q couple
Of hours later returned and begged for
the release of his wife. 1t was too
late, however, and nothing could be
done, for she had beed received st
Clarennount. -Pittsbnrg Times.