The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-17
VILLAINOUS.
An Enraged Man Beats His Wife
Brutally.
Breaking Her Arm, Her Nose
and a Rib.
a TALE OF HORROR.
The Poor Woman Pounded With
Fence Board
In the Presence of Her Small
Children.

Mrs. Linn, at north side insane asy-
lum, \ orth Topeka, right arm broken;
left rib ditto; nose ditto, by husband .
4 his was the way a note read which a
STATE JOURNAL reporter found on his
desk this morning.
The reporter, who visited the north
side asylum and hospital. saw pitiful
sight and heard a terrible story Of a vii
famous husbands cruelty.
The Mrs. Linn referred to was found
to be Mrs. Jennie Linn who up to Mon
DAY morning lived with her husband.
George Linn and their three children,
seven miles south Of Topeka, mar Paul
ne.
Stephen Bedwell, proprietor of the
hospital said the woman and her three
little children were brought To his place
last eve ling about dark by Poor Com
missioner Hale.
The JOURNAL reporter found the un-
fortunate woman seated IN one Of the
large south windows in the woman's
ward OF the hospital and asylum, sur
rounded by her three little children and
a half dozen half crazy women of all
ages and cOlors Her right arm was
bandaged in surgeons splints; her nose
was swollen and red mark across the
bridge, indicated where II was broken.
Between her sobs and grOans the woman
informed the reporter that one of her
left ribs was broken and another one had
been cracked
Mrs Linn said she received all her
injnries at the hands Of her husband
early Monday morning before breakfast.
The wOman's appearance plainly indi-
Gated extreme poverty, she wore a faded
calico dress and her three little freckle-
faced children the oldest Of which does
not seem to be over SIX years old, showed
plainly that they had not been accus-
toned to the luXurIes of life and they
seemed happy as if of on visit instead
of being OuTcasts from home as they are.
Mrs Linn's story could only be learned
in q disconnected way. but the substance
of it is that her husband, George Linn,
has been ill-treating her for some time,
and Monday morning he threatened to
take her sewing machine to town and
sell it.
Mrs Linn objected and a quarrel
arose. The husband went outside and
seizing fence board proceeded to en-
force his rights as master of the house.
The brute, in the presence Of the chill
dren. broke his wife's arm below the
elbow with the fence board; he struck
her on the nose fracturing it, and with
his heavy boot he kicked her in the side,
breaking one rib and cracking another.
When she could no longer resist, Mrs
Linn took her three children and man
aged to get to the nearest ueighbor.
where she was given help and a doctor
was secured. Doctor Taylor the physi-
clan who was called set her broken arm
and dressed her other injuries. She
was cared for by the nei ighbors until the
next evening when she, with her child
ren, was brought to Topeka and turned
over to Poor Commissioned Hale TO be
cared for at the expense Of the county.
Mrs. Linn told the JOURNAL reporter
that she and her husband have been hav-
ing trouble for several months and that
she can never go back and live With him
again She said she was told her hus-
band had gone to his mothers, who lives
two miles from their home