Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-06-22
The Murder of Women Increasing.


At st. Louis, June 13, John McCuI-
lock shot his wife on the corner of
Broadway and Locust streets. He
then walked to the corner of Olive
street, put the muzzle of the revolver
to his left temple and sent a bullet
crashing through his head, dying in
stantly. The women had left McCul-
lock because he was a confirmed
drunkard and had abused her.
At Norway, Michigan, June Ii,
Mrs. Edwin Warren left her husband
because she could no longer endure
his brutality. Yesterday she was on
the street where she met her husband.
He demanded her return to his house.
She refused and he at once shot her
with a revolver, then picked her up
and at the muzzle Of the revolver
marched her through the streets to
his house. She will die.
On the same day in Baltimore, Pc
ter Alt while drunk knocked his wife
down and began beating her in the
most brutal manner. He then got
hold Of her throat and she thought
that he meant to kill her. She was
almost nsensible when she heard the
report of a gun. Her husbands
grip on her throat relaxed and he fell
on the floor. Young Alt, who is a
brighS looking boy Of Is years, had
fred the shot that killed his fendish
father.
At Sunset Texas, DR.. Wiley, a
drunkard stripped his wife Of all her
clothes, and beat her numerically.
She escaped from him and ran
through the streets in an entirely
nude condition. The doctor persued
her, firing at her with his revolver,
but failed to hit her, and she sought
refuge in a neighbours house, where
the doctor, in attempting to enter,
was disarmed and handed over to the
officers. Mrs. Wiley who is a most
estimable lady, will die from the
effects of the beating and kicks.
The above is an account of only
very few horrible crimes committed
in one day. Every day in the year,
these crimes are committed Women
are abused, and their lives made al
most unbearabIe by all manner of
outrage, and are beaten, kicked
chOked, stabbed, and shot by men
who have been made demons by
strong drink. Many of those men
believe that their wife is as much
their property as their dog and horse,
and when their brain is on fire with
alcohol, they are more disposed to
beat and abuse their wife than their
animals. What a disgrace to our
boosted civilization that we have laws
DISTINGUISHING women, that we try her
for Ofenses by male judges, male
juries, and under laws in the enact
ment of which she has no voice, hedge
her up and encompass her about by
arbitrary and senseless customs and
prejudices, and utterly disarm her
from defending herself or her child
rem against the Internal liquor traffic
her most deadly enemy. Every
day somewhere in the land, a wife
and mother-yes, hundreds of them
are beaten, grossly maltreated and
murdered by the accursed liquor
traffic, and yet we have men who
think women should quietly submit
to such treatment without complaint
and that you must not interfere by
law with the most mOnstrous evil that
curses the world. The HERALD would
enfranchise women in every state In
the Union. There are several reasons
why we would do this, but we would
do so for the one reason that they
would help to abolish the liquor
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