The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-07
AWFUL WORK OF A F|END
Most Terrible Story Of Wifc-Bcating
on Record.
MRS. JENNIE KING IS DYING
Rapidly Sinking from tho Effects or a
heating Given by Her Drunken
Husband The Murderer
Arrested.

Asbury Park, N j., June GA horri-
BILE story of wife beating and probable
murder was brought to light in Asbury
Park today. The victim. Mrs Jennie
King, lies in A critical condition at the
Hotel Gladstone, on Second avenue.
The wife beater. protected by the Wo-
man whom he has probably killed, LETT
Asbury Park yesterday morning for ms
home in Bordentown. N. j., but Is now
under police surveillance. Augustus
King Is the son OF Mrs. King, who owns
the Hotel Gladstone. He Is tall,
muscular man, and drinks heavily.
About O'Clock Tuesday morning King.
who had gone out early the previous
evening for nights carousal, returned
home very much under the influence Of
liquor and violently out of humor. At
ter TRADE Of abuse King caught his
wife by the throat and choked her the
woman only weighs seventy pounds.
King picked her up with both hands,
raised her fragile body over his head.
and flung her with tremendous force on
the dining room floor.
May King, a 16-year-old daughter.
attracted by the screams of her moth
er and the noise of the falling body,
begged her infuriated father to desist
and not kill her mother. With an oath
Kings uplfted fist landed square IN
his daughters face. She fell to the
floor like log. Little Gussie, the
youngest child, cried pitifully and
asked her father to stop. King hit the
child in the back with his doubled fist.
The child fell fiat and moaned with
pain. King then returned to his wife,
who had struck the floor on her back.
He began to kick and beat the pros
trate woman, regardless of conse-
quences. The cries of the women.
meantime, attracted the neighbors, who
rushed to the door, which was for
tunately unlocked and the brute was
quickly forced from his victim.
Physicians Opinion.
A messenger was at once despatched
for physician and Mrs. King was
carried to her room. The doctor, after
hurried examination felt confident
that the woman would die. He be-
lieved her spine was dislocated, but as
some doubt existed about the actual
extent of the injury to the spine, King 5
arrest was deferred at the earnest So
licitations of his wife, who refused to
make a complaint against him. Still
intoxicated the wife-beater took an
early train for his home in Borden
town. The physician visited his pa
tient before s o'clock this morning.
A change for the worse had taken place
and 1t was apparent she could not live.
The doctor at once notified the cor
oner.
The coroner called at the Gladstone
prepared to take Mrs. Kings antemor-
TEN statement The woman was evil
dntly in close touch with death, yet she
refused to believe her end was near.
Mrs. King tried in every way to pro-
tect the absent assailant and did every
thing in her power to shield him. DR..
Coleman believes Mrs. King will die
tonight. The injured woman Is said to
be highly connected, being related to
the Morgans, of New York, and the
Mannings, of Trenton.
King the fugitive. was once before
arrested for beating his wife, who
stood by him with wifely devotion
through long years of abuse
At $50 p. m. Mrs. King, though still
alive. was rapidly sinking.
King was arrested this afternoon and
locked up In the BordentoWn iail