The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-07
VENGEANCE At LAST.
Mrs. Bretherton Waited
Four Long and Weary
Years for Mr.. B.
H0RSEWHlPPED THEM BOTH.
A Lively Scene at the Pennsyl.
vania Depot-The Other
Woman Unknown.
RORSEWHlPPED THEM BOTH.

At about half past ten O'Clock this
morning when the Pennsylvania Railway
depot passenger room was crowded
with hurrying people an unexpected
entertainment was afforded them in the
form of a horsewhisping case. The par
ticipants were well dressed people and
apparently verv respectable. Attention
was first attracted tu the trio. who stood
in the centre of the immense waiting
room, when a middle-aged woman was
heard to eXclaim:-
II have been waiting for this opportun-
ity four years, aud now that have caught
you | intend furnishing you as you de-
serve to be punished, you wretch. you
villaiuV
Having finished, she seized a man
about fifty years of age by the collar.
and drawing from beneath the folds Of
her dress an immense horsewhip. sne ap-
piled it TO the mans head and shoulders
with a vigor which only wronged
woman can command.
THE woMAN's TURN.
Having dealt several terrific blows up
on the mau's head she let go her hold up
on his collar, and applied the whip to an
exceedingly handsome aud well dressed
brunette, who a few minutes before had
been leaning lightly on the arm of the
man who mad been hoi oisewhipped.
The woman screamed aud made dash
for the doorway leading to the trainshed,
aud before she could be stopped boarded
train and disappeared.
The enraged woman again turned her
attention to the man she had dubbed a
william. and Notwithstanding his remon-
strances piled the whip with force. The
man pleaded for mercy and besought the
crowd to take the woman away. But the
crowd enjoyed the affair and merely
Kissed at him.
He finally screamed for help and a mo-
ment later Policeman Steele seized the
Woman's arm and wrenched the whiI
from her hand. He then seized the man
by the collar and started for the Firsl
precinct station house, followed by jeer
ing, laughing crowd.
A CAUDLE LECTURE.
you will, will your You will skin
around with married women. ehP' "On
tions had u tendency 10 make the man
exceedingly uncomfortable.
The woman was still in the height Of
rage and at intervals of every hundred
yards attempted to break away from
Steele and rob the terrified individual she
had horsewhipped of his hair.
Arriving at the station house the
woman was charged with being dis
orderly person. She gave her name as
Mrs. Ellen Bretherton, and her residenc,
as New York. 1t was subsequent,
learned that the man was her husband.
Mrs. Bretherton was arraigned befor,
Justice O'Donnell and ordered to pay &
fine of So. which she did.
To the Court the woman repeated tn
oft told story of husbands unfaithful
ness. She has suspected him for foul
years of being intimate with the woman
she caught him with. but whose mann
she refuses to disclose.
ALI attempts to catch them togethe
were without avail until this morning
when she was fully prepared to gain th'
revenge for which her soul thirsted.
Mr. Bretherton had nothing to say con
cerning the matter and positively refused
to disclo-e the name of the woman VIII,
beat such hasty retreat. He remarked
however, that his wife was insapely jeal
Gus and made his life miserable by dog
giug his every step.