The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
WOMEN AS BULDOzRRs.
Figuratively Speaking Three OF Them Try 20
Sit Down on an Eagle Man.

| thing about me am going to hurt you:
Do you mind. l give you timely warning
now" The reporter in question was an
| EAGLE man who was setting in the dis
trict court yesterday afternoon as meek as
a lamb philosophising on the depravity of
| human nature in general and on the
nature of a crowd who were in court con-
| testing over divorce case in particular
| The speaker was a stately matron who
wore hair of medium length hanging down
over her shoulders in ringlets. Her point
ed finger was about two-thirds of an inch
| from the reporter nose and she shook it in
a manner that made half the stars of the
| Permanent visible to his large and pro-
| trudiug optics She was Mrs. Judge
Dixon and the reporters first acquaintance
with her will never be forgotten For the
| first time in his life he felt the truth of the
| old saying Hell hath no fury like woman
| scorned. y With terrific flash
of the eye that suggested Collins, skulls
and cross bones and all the other emblems
| of anihilation, she passed on, and before
the heart of the reporter had receeded to
its proper place of abode, another finger
was pointed still closer to his nose, and
another voice with a genuine Bowery ac-
| cent said: Say, Mr.. Reporter if you say
a word against me in your paper, FL
| horsewhip you, as sure as ! stand here
| Do you near me?" The last question was
superfious, for Julius C9eser himself, who
has been dead 1000 years could not
| help hearing her. The reporter cautiously
ran his eye from the point OF the finger up
the hand, along the sleeve, then up her
| nonL olnncy chin n that oh
that mouth! that had given vent to her
enraged feelings. where they dwelt for
some time in wonderment at the remark
able powers of such an organ; then along
the nose to eyes that sparkled like hot
Goals of fire, then up the forehead to
mass of hair cut pompadour. There was
no mistaking her; she was Mrs. Mckee,
| the daughter of Mrs. Dixon. She, too,
shot final fiery and threatening look at
the reporter, and STROBE on after her
mamma with a style of stride
that would put John L. Sullivan
movement to shame. No man in the
history of the world was more glad to look
on the back of retreating femme form
than the reporter was at that time, and as
he was congratulatng himself on his
| happy escape another finger was put
smack under his nose. The owner of this
finger was Mrs. Eek, friend OF the
Dixons She riveted a pair of vicious
looking black eyes on the reporter, each
eye containing apparently eight million
daggers, and said: Say. reporter, with
out the Mr. / won't tell you what I'll do,
but if you say anything about me you'll
get the worst of it, This was the worst
blow of all and the most eff
fective, for Mrs. Eek swore on the
stand two minutes before that she could
drink kag-not keg-of beer. Besides
it is told of her that she once licked a man
that weighed 245 pounds, and the reporter S
fighting weight is only POP.
Now then, all these threats were made
without any provocation whatever, and
were evidently suggested to the three
"terrors" by the presence of an innocent
| looking little note book and pencil, which
were used altogether for another purpose.
The threats were made for the purpose of
intimidating the reporter from writing
up the details of the divorce case.
They were absolutely unnecessary,
for the policy of the EAGLE is
to keep out of the cutters when
looking for news and the details of this
case were certainly the dirtiest and most
shameful ever heard in the district court
of this county. 1t was the case of Henri
eta Dixon against Charlie Dixon. Henri
eta is frail little woman of 95 or 100
pounds who married Charlie Dixon on the
10th of September last. A few months
after she swore that Charlie slapped her
four or five times and then broke pitcher
over her head. Charlie denied the soft i'm
parchment of breaking the pitcher over
her head but admitted that be gave her a
pretty good slapping. Then the evidence
was gone into IN detail and it was of such
character that it would make
the hardest sinner in the county
jail blush for shame. Both
Mrs. Dixon, Mrs Mckee and Mrs. Eek
were witnesses for Charlie, and their tes-
timony was highly sensational. Sam Ami
don represented Henrietta, and he too felt
the wrath of Mrs. Dixon. He put ques-
ton to her that she did not like, and she
plainly told him that if he asked her such
a question as that again she would get up
and hit him. Mrs. Mckee spoke up from
a distant part of the room and with a xyl-
ophoric voice observed that he was getting
entirely too fresh. Charlie also called a
halt and threatened in an undertone to do
something. 1t was cross fire OF
words for some time and final
ly Mrs Dixon approached Judge
Reed, and asked him how much it would
cost her to lick Amidon right there and
then. Judge Reed had put no price Oh
such privileges and SO informed her.
Mrs. Mckee was asked whether she
went to Mrs. Henrietta Dixons mothers
house one day, and if so, what she wanted
there? She replied that she went there to
lick Henrietta, that she found the door
locked and barricaded with a stove, but for
all that, she bursted it in.
Mrs. Eek testified TO many things
and it was amusing TO hear
her expressions She had all the
slang that is going and talked about
keeping cases. Singing hash, " and all
such things with lightness and freedom
that was astonishing
There might be some excuse for
the wrath of Mrs. Dixon, for
she was the mother of her son, and natur-
ally felt bad over the whole circumstances
but there was no excuse at all for the con-
duct of the younger women. Charley was
the quitest one of the lot and took the
matter SO cody that in the very middle of
| the exciting period OF the case that inter
ested him so much he turned around 20 the
EAGLE man and made inquiries about the
base ball game then going on in toe park.
The case was finally postponed till Wed
nesday pending the arrival OF al import
ant witness.
Before departing from the tcourt house
Mrs Mckee met the reporter again IN the
corridor and informed him for the second
time that she would horsewhip him If he