Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-15
ENRAGED WOMEN
MOB AN EAST LIVERPOOL NAN AND HIS
MISTRESS.
George Burton Deserts His Faithful Wifi and
I1salls Another In Her P~lacs-Thrss Hundred
Women Take Summary Vengeance
on The ErriDg Couple.

EAST LIVERPOOL, April IA great
sensation was caused here last night by
over 800 women attacking the house of a
married man and his mistress with eobble-
stones and rotten eggs, and attempting to
tar and feather both parties. Three
weeks sgo George Burton, a wsll-to-do
business man, forty-f7e years Of age, went
on a visit to Trenton, N. j. There
he became euamored of a dashing
young widow named AIRS Margaret Fyn-
ton. Upon his return home the wife
of bis early days possessed no charms for
him, and his conduct, formerly tender and
affectionate, changed to brutality. The
climax was reached Wednesday, when
Burton babe his wife to leave the house,
saying that he bad chosen another woman
to take her place and that she was even
then on the way. Mrs. Burton protested
and entreated, but her husband brutality
struck her and forced her out Of the house.
Yesterday morning Burton went 10
Pittsburg, and last night be returned with
his new love, who was Respondent in silks
and had gay feathers in her bonnet, She
was installed in the house on Seventh
street. Meanwhile the wropged wife had
sought refuge at the house Of O neigbbor,
and the news of Burton's brutality
bad been spread broadcast. By
nine o'clock it was rumcred that
thu women of the neighborhood were GO
ing to take the punishment Of the couple
into their own hands and q little later a
mob, composed of foyer 800 members OF tie
fairer eek, laid siege To the honse. They
built a bonfire SO as to see well, and then
with stones, brickbats and rotten eggs
began their assault. Pieces of timber
were also used and the doors broken il.
At last a shrek of joy went up. The
couple, dressed in their night robes, male
their appearance. Burton took TO his heels
aud made good his escape. for the members
of the mob, true to their sex, believed the
wrong TO be allin the The widow
was therefore caught and made the object
| of every fair fist that could reach her. At
last size fell senseless and was kicked
along. Another ten minutes and her life
would not have been worth the purchase,
but the marshal came along with some dep
uties and rescued her. Meanwhile some
men had started for Barton with the inten-
ton Of giving him q coat Of tar and festh-
era, bat police aid reached him in time
also, and both were soon landed in the city
Jail.
The women, despoiltd Of their prey, re-
turned to the house and wreaked their
vengeance upon the furniture, so that this
morning the building looked as if a cyclone
had entered the front door and passed ont
Of the back.
Early this morning a crowd Of women
gathered around the city hall building,
aud there they remained. At 10 o'clock
it was decided by the authorities that
Widow Fynton had better leave town,
20 the marshal and deputies escorted
her to the station. They were fol-
lowed by a large crowd, aud the officials
had to frequently harangue the crowd to
prevent their using rotten eggs on the
Trenton beauty's silk clothes. Fully
three hundred people were at the depot,
and as the woman boarded the Pit!sburg
express, groans and Kisses were heard.
Burton's wife refused to prefer charges
against him, and he was released tonight
The male members Of the population VOW
that unless he Immediately leaves town,
he will be treated to the coat Of tar and
feathers that the police interfered with last
night.