The record-union., 1891-08-22
DINGLEY'S DOMICILE
The Scene of Very Lively Midnight
Disturbance.
The Women in the Family Rush Out
Into the Street in Wild
Confusion.

City Attorney Hart, Night Jailer Clark
and RECoRD-UNIoN reporter We're sit
ting in front of the Station House last
night, engaged in conversation, when
they were startled by the screaming of
women near by. All three jumped up
from their chairs and started up 1 street
in the direction from whence the yelling
seemed to be coming, and had gotten op-
posite the Dingley building, between
Front and Second streets, when the front
door flew open with bang and two
women rushed out, bareheaded, shoeIess
and stockingless. They ran down toward
the station, crying and screaming at the
top of their voices. The investigating
party were about to follow them, when
the sliding gate leading into the yard adj
joining the building rolled open violently
and another scantily-clad
WOMAN RUSHED OUT
! On the sidewalk and caught up with the
other two fleeing females. All three
then made for the switch-yards and hud-
| died together in q corner near the watch
mans house. In the meantime a couple
of men came out of the Dingley house
! and then went back again. The reporter
went around to find the women and had
were hiding when all three clamored
about him and between sobs and hyster-
| les begged him to take them out of harm's
reach.
They were finally induced to come into
| the Chiefs office with City Attorney
Hart, and it was nearly half an hour be-
| fore they could be quieted sufficiently to
tell the cause Of the midnight commo-
ton. The three were Mrs. Din ngley and
Misses Georgia and Rose Dingley, and it
was apparent from the condition of their
wearing apparel and their hair that a
| racket had taken place
IN THE COFFEE MANSION.
They all talked at once and it was quite
difficult to get a connected story Of the
| affair. One Of Georgia Dingley's eyes
was badley swollen and the dress of Mrs.
Dingley was torn in several places. She
had neither stockings nor shoes on her
feet, and she kept complaining that her
throat panied her from choking.
The story they told is, in substance, as
follows:
Mrs. Dingley and Georgia had been out
for a walk and were going up stairs to
bed when DingIey came to the head of the
stairs and demanded to know where
they had been. They told him it was none
OF his affairs, and then the racket COM
menced. Dingley, they claim, came
down TO the foot of the stairs and grasp
way up the staircase. He then caught
Mrs. Dingley by the hair and throat and
dragged her to the top of the stairs. She
says he then chOked her and threw her
on the floor, where she lay stunned for a
few moments. Two hired men, Bernard
Refine and a Mr.. Barrows, informed him
where Georgia was hiding and going to
her room he found her underneath the
bed.
DRAGGED BY THE HAIR.
He caught hold of her hair and pulled
her out. By this time Mrs. Dingley had
gotten up and came in to prevent her
husband beating Georgia. The latter
was struck blow in the eye, and lashed
about the head with a whip before the
wife could interfere, and while DingIey
turned his attention to his spouse, the
girl in turn gave him couple of cuts
with the black-snake.
The women finally freed themselves,
and Mrs. Dingley rushed pell nell down
the front stairs, accompanied by her
the back way, and in her flight just did
manage to dodge a bucket of kitchen
cleanings that had been hurled at her
from the back porch.
The story was corroborated by all
three, and they declared that they would
swear to complaint charging Dingley
with beating them so numerically.
Neither of them wanled to go into the
house again, but after much persuasion
they We're finally induced to do so, and
they left the jail avowing they would
have Dingley arrested in the morning.
They claimed that such conduct on his
part was getting altogether too frequent,
and they did not propose to tolerate it,
About midnight they went into the
house, but came out again shortly, de-
claring that they We're afraid to stay
there.
After consulting one another for a few
minutes they entered the house again,
and at last accounts everything was