Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-26
A W0MAN'S WRATH
Let Loose on a Prominent Chi
cago Attorney.
SENSATION AT A BANK ENTRANCE.

Pretty Mrs. Kent seizes United States
Commissioner King by the Whiskers
and Proceeds TO Take 1t Out OF His
the COMMUNICATIVE Stories of
Alleged Wrong and Injury.
CHICAGO, March 26-The spectacle of
pretty and handsomely dressed young
woman darling out of the entrance of the
First National bank and seizing diguified
gentleman by the whiskers while she casti-
gated him with a heavy rawhide, was the
unusual and exciting event which COM
manded the attention of passers-by on Dear
born street about 1920 O'clock yesterday.
The parties were Mrs Frank Kent. an artist.
who lives at Armitage and Columbia ave-
nues, Hermosa, and United States Commits
sioner Simeon w King
She Was Little bus wIry.
Mr. King caught the woman's arms and
tried TO hold her, but if she is little, Mrs
Kent is wiry, and in the struggle which en-
sued she twisted and squirmed like an eel
until her foot slipped on the stone steps of
the bank building, and an instant later the
struggle was being carried on on the Dear
born street pavement AS they fell Mrs
Kent was undermost, and Mr. King was
able TO prevent her doing him further dam
age until Officer Brett came TO his assist
ance and took the furious little beauty TO
the Central station
Mr.. Kings forehead was cut, by the power
full strokes Of the rawhide, and his head was
very much walled up from the same cause.
The Lawyer Tells His story.
MT
W. Smith, west side restauratuer, some
time last fall, said Mr.. King to a reporter
and | acted as her attorney in some busi-
ness connected with panorama company in
which she was interested Afterward she
came to me and told me she was in distress
and about to be turned out by her landlord
for not paying her rent l have large and
sympathetic heart for a woman in distress,
and accordingly pui chased an option on
some property in Hermosa and allowed Mrs
Kent to occupy IT because of her poverty.
Couldn't stand the Anarchists.
She got a lot of Anarchists around her
among them Albert Harbaugh, who was ar
rested at the time OF the Haymarket riot
ami kept IN Jail for some months. She also
had man named Skolaski hanging about.
and ordered them out. Finally on their
refusal to quit | commenced action in the
circuit court, and recovered part of nv
furniture by means of replevin after these
Anarchists had defied the constables for
some tims. They then began proceedings
against myself, Justice Burke. Constable
Burns my agent, Madison A Rice. and
Hattie Roth for conspiracy, and on that
charge Justice " Goldman held Mr.. Rice and
myself to grand jury.
A Justices Hide in Danger.
The woman has threatened my life sew
eral times. and so has Harbaugh, and when
she rushed at ME this morning | thought she
had pistol, and that my last hour had
come. | am afraid she Will kill me vet, but
I'll put her and her friends in the peniten-
tiary before l am through with them /
am going to punish Justice Woodman, too
for holding me over to the grand jury, and
1t won't be many days before | hang his
hide on the fence for maifessance in office
The woman is fiend!7
Mrs. Kents Tale of Woe.
He has been prosecuting me for months, 5"
said the woman 10 another reporter Last
fall | employed HIM as my lawyer. but we
had some difficulty and discharged him.
Ever since he has been prosecuting me. He
has bad me arrested four times once for
infidelity-and has tried his best to defame
my character Last week he instituted pro-
ceedings asking the Humane society to take
charge of my three children, claiming that
| was woman not fit to take care OF them.
Three days ago Humane society officer
came 10 my home in HermOsa and 1; led to
take the children tut | wouldn't let him
have them.
Thinks She Got Pretty Even.
Ever since then have been looking for
King and to-day | caught him, and | think
got pretty even with the scamp, although he
did not get half what he deserves, said the
pretty little woman, her black eyes flashing
and the color rising in her cheeks The
brute struck me with his cane, too, and IL be
had not thrown me down the steps as ne did
| would have whipped him till he howled for