Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
BROOKS BILL BLAMED.

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Peace After Their License Was Taken
Away--An Entertaining Hearing-Used a
Stove to Enforce Discipline.
Thomas Parry, a robust, smooth-faced
Englishman who keeps boarding house at
No. 2852 Penn avenue, was yesterday held
by Squire Gripp in $500 for court Q
answer the charge of wife beating. Immedi-
ately after entering bail Mr.. Parry was
notified that his wife had filed petition for
a divorce and she was notified to appear on
Saturday to make an answer
The case of wife beating made against
Parry developed some decidedly sensational
features. Mrs. Parry was married about
ten years ago. Her married life was, she
said, as calm and pleasant as dream until
after the Brooks high license law with one fell
swoop knocked out innumerable licensed
saloons in Pittsburg and elsewhere. Then
her former kind and considerate husband
seemed to lose his temper and become of
tensive in his treatment of her. About the
same time he also become Jealous of her.
He insisted, she said, on knowing every
step she took. One night last winter when
she returned home about midnight she said
her husband drove her out into the streets.
"What did he say to you when you come
home after midnight?" Judge Gripp asked.
"He insisted on knowing where had
been. I told him that was my business,
and then after 1 had gotten undressed to go
to bed he chased me out into the street."
"Hold on, Judge" shouted Parry, who
had been sitting back in the crowded room.
81 want that evidence to be correct. When
she came home after midnight 1 asked her
where she had been, and she said 1 was an
IL 4 loIl laoIaA IhoL
of my business. Then L told her she had
best 60 out and make good night of it and
come home in decent hour in the morn
ing. That's the TRUTH" he concluded alb
ruptIy.
''No, it's not the truth, Judge" Mrs
Parry interrupted. 81 didn't say anything
about his being bald-headed. He Just drove
me out of the house because I would not
tell him where I had been. Then" she
went on, fixing her eyes on her husband,
when came home the next morning he
grabbed me and sat me on the cooking
stove"
"And were you burned?" Judge Gripp
asked anxiously.
''Of course was burned" the wife re-
piled. 81 was not seriously burned, only
because he was getting breakfast and there
were lot of pots and skillets on the stove.
That sane day he tried to stick my head in
the stove and night or two after he threw
a kettle of hot water at me, and he also
threw chair at me. He kicked me in the
face a few days after that, and here" she
went on pointing to an ugly scar on her
chin, 'is where his boot heel struck me-
'That will do, madam" Judge Gripp
said, waving the woman to her seat.
Parry was then called, and denied en-
phatically all the charges made against him.
He admitted, however, that he had pushed
his wife against the stove, and also cor
roborated the evidence that he had been
in bad temper ever since the passage
of the Brooks high license law. In his be-
half several witnesses were called to prove
that his wife stayed out late at night, and
one of them disgusted the Judge BY testify
ing that he was in the room when it was
alleged that Parry threw a chair at his
wife, but he refused to swear that
Parry threw the chair. ''There was Just
the three Of US in the room," the witness
explained. 81 saw the chair flying from
where Parry stood and saw it fall and
break into splinters near where Mrs. Parry
stood. But, Your Honor, 1 don't know
who threw it. 1 didn't throw it, and Mrs.
Parry didn't throw it, but I don't know
who threw it"
II guess you don't know anything" the
Judge suggested. He then fixed the
amount of Parry's bail and dismissed the
crowd. The bail was given.