Evening journal., 1896-06-04
SINGULAR KIND OF FUN.
Barber Warner Struck and
Kicked His Wife, Not In Anger
TEEN TURNS HER oUTFoR ANOTHER

| Lizzie Davis Gets n vacatiou-A Quar-
tet which VIII Not Be nIissed-The
Cloth FakIrs Are Held-other MunicI-
| pal Court Cases.
Unless the evidence which William
Warner proposes to Introduce TO morrow
morning Is OF very welghty import. that
individual Will find himself Ia a prett
tight box Already Keeper Of Seals and
/ Measures Heal is busy putting new
handles on the big weights and adjusting
| the balances Ia readlnees for the drop
which will follow his fai are TO prove to
Judge Ball that blow sJ. ock as amuse
ment is all right.
The story Is told by his wife Rebecca
Is a strange end sad one DE Is bar
ber at No 1908 East Eleventh street.
and the pair have been married twelve ears
aud have a daughter aged soven years
He has abused her and failed TO support
her for q number OF years, In fact. Rs her
sister stated on the stand, a $40 bill
would more than cover the cost OF the
clothes bought by him for her or The
daughter
Kicked Aud Put Her Out.
!, During last February while she was
4 helping him fix a stove be struck and
knocked her over a chair, then kicked her
and put her out OF doors In the rain. On
/ March 3, the very anniversary OF her
wedding, he kicked and put her out,
when she went TO the home Of sister
The next day he installed another wo
man as housekeeper and this woman,
whose name is Sherman, has been living
there ever since. She was in court and
9udibly remarked when Mrs
Warmers sister was telling Of the
''housekeepsr" racket, I'm make you
prove that
After she had been displaced By the
Sherman woman Mrs Warner consulted
lawyer relative TO getting control OF
her child. and after this had bssn &C
complished had a warrant issued for
Warner for assault and non-suppprt,
A Singular Question.
When Warner was asked II he desired
to question his wife, be asked:
Haven't hit you many and many a
time before ?"
Indeed you have, WILL" was the
answer.
"Dld DO it in anger ?" was the next
| question.
"YOu wore certainly angry. / don't
wifs again answered
Thsn. to the Judge, Warner began q
statement that be had often struck and
kicked his wife, but never In anger he
claimed that he had witnesses to prove
that he never abused her and that he did
support her. and he WAS given until TO
morrow morning to produce them. Ball
was Fixed at $780,
LIZZIE Gets Vacation.
Monday night James Tilghmnn, colored
| went into q saloon near Front aud Jsffer
son streets and ran afoul OF Lizzie Davis,
colored She took uUbrsae st soue
remarks he made and soaked him with a
beer glass. cutting his head badly. She
pleaded guilty this morning and was
hned $50 snd costs and three months In
jail
Thomas Carrigan was found by Officer
Scott, drunk at Third street srossing
He had nothing to say and was fined So
and costs
Eugens Cassidy, drunk on the coast,
was sent In by Officers Msloney and
Shields, and fined 81 and costs.
Harry Hudson q colored lad was ct
rested by Officer Payne for committing q
nuisance at Ninth and Walnut strseta.
He was fined 81 and costs ss a lesson.
]. r. Brown was charged by his wife
Mary with disorderly conduct. She was
not Ia conrt having repent-d and skipped
TO Centervil,e He was held until to
morrow morning.
A Notable Quartet.
Michsel Xix, John, alias "Signal"
Thompson. James McCrea and Frank
Wilson, wers arrsigned on complaint Of
Officers Scott aud Rslston, who found
them on the railroad very drunk
Thompson claimed that no was sober and
/ that tho officers we're failing him up
When he saw that the judge was In
clined to doubt his woro signal re
marked: Say judge. you ken pat II all
on me. II desc fellows hadn't been
folltrln' me de odder tree would got
Of
Judge Ball decided that It would be
best for the county II the punishment
was divided and hxed the hne at So or
forty DAYS.
Isaac Pierce, arrested by Oficer Rails
ton for III treating a horse WAS dis
charged on accommodation Of Agent
Stout
John Anker and Thomas Canning two
Bfowntown boys we're charged with
malicious mischief, but the case WAS con
| tinued as Anker was not in court.
Held for Further Hearing.
Judge Ball banded down 9 decision In
the cases OF Lswis and Mcintosh. the
two men charged with cloth swindling
in West Chester. He ssid that the hear
ing was simply a preliminary ons. and
he should hold the two men In order to
/ allow the West Chester authorities to
prove their right tn extrGdition papers.
This hearing will be held on next Thurs
/ dav
Edwsrd Mulvey. Jr aged 10 yesrs.
was sent 10 the Ferris Industrial School,
on complaint Of his uncle. M j. NsGley,
who said the boy was incorrigibls and
had bad habits.
JANIS q War6eld the young man who
was arrested by Officer Di Mare for rid
ing his bicycle too fast, WAS fined 50 and
costs and paid it.