The record-union., 1896-09-01
SCHULTZ DECLARED GUILTY.
His Brutal Treatment Of His Little
Daughter.
Witnesses Tell How He Struck Her
and Then Showed Her Into
Cellar.

eVluoHCo III the case OF JOnn SCHULTZ,
charged with battery on his frail little
daughter of II years, with the result
that he was found guilty.
The inhuman father was arrested by
Dan Healy, officer of the Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Children. He
is the proprietor of a restaurant, and
has kept his little girl In the kitchen as
dish-washer. Last year he kept res
taurant on I street, near the Courthouse,
but so abused his wife and family that
he was forced to leave there. Now his
wife is in an insane asylum and the
children are at his mercy-of which
there seems to be very little, if any, in
his composition. His daughter Techla
is said to have been frequently abused
by him.
At the trial yesterday Mrs. Mary
Cody testified that she had known the
Schultz family about four years. She
was in Schultz employ at the time of
the alleged beating of the little girl. The
latter was washing dishes in the res
taurant, when her father struck her
in the face. He then showed her into
the dark cellar and followed her down
there. The witness heard the child
screaming, but could not tell what her
father was doing to her.
Three times he returned to the cellar,
and each time, Mrs. Cody says, she
heard the child scream. Finally she
| went down and got the girl away from
him. The child then had a black eye.
Mrs. Cody said she was employed as
cook in Schultz restaurant He had
spoken to her about her testimony, but
she told him she would tell the truth.
On cross-examination the witness
said Schultz complained that the child
was not washing the dishes clean
enough, and she replied that she could
not wash them in as hot water as he
could. Then he struck her. The child
begged not to be forced into dark
| room.
| Miss Carrie G. Hopper. who was also
| i'll Schultz employ on the 24th of Au-
gust as waitress, told how Schultz
| struck the child, and Mrs. Cody called
| on the witness to go for help. She
asked a man to compel Schultz to stop
furnishing the child, but he refused to
interfere, and witness then called for
! the police, but none came. When she
| went inside Mrs. Cody had hold Of
| Schultz trying to restrain him from
| further Furnishing the child.
Miss Hopper said that when Schultz
| struck the child he did so with great
| violence three times, and then jerked
her about by her hair. When Mrs.
Cody took the little girl UP from the
cellar the latters eye was blackened
and swollen.
Miss Hopper said Schultz told her
| he would fix her for having him ar
| rested.
The little girl, Techla Schultz, was
| next called to the witness stand. The
child was weeping, but managed to
control herself sufficiently to tell her
| story in Straightforward manner.
| She said she was washing the dishes
when her father came in and complained
| that she was not doing 1T properly. He
| then struck her three times and showed
her into the cellar. There is a dark
room down there, and he tried to force
| her into it. In her struggles to get
away she struck her face against post
| by the door, causing a swelling about
| one eye and the discoloration OF the
| spot.
| She said she told her father she could
not wash the dishes in as hot water as
| he could, and then he struck her.
| officer Dan Healy, who arrested
! Schultz, told how he came to make the
| arrest He described the appearance
4 OF the child race, ana SAID IL was Dduly
swollen and discolored Schultz said,
| referring to Miss Hopper, THAT ID
b-h is the cause of my arrest, and
I'll get even with her!"
Schultz, the defendant, had to admit
that he slapped the child and showed
her into the basement, but contended
| that he did not punish her severely.
4 Assistant District Attorney Jones. in
arguing the case, scored Schultz Sc
verely for his brutal treatment Of the
| little girl, who has not the protection
of mother to shield her from a heart
less father, the mother being an inmate
of an insane asylum. He claimed that
the punishment administered to the
| child was such as to warrant the inter-
| ference Of the court.
| Z. c. Hart, counsel for Schultz, de-
MED that there was any proof that
| Schultz had exceeded his parental au-
| thority in Furnishing the child. He
may have been unnecessarily severe,
but had a legal right to discipline his
child, and the testimony did not sus-
tain the charge that undue violence had
been used.
| Justice Henry found no difficulty in
declaring Schultz guilty of having ex-
ceeded his legal authority and COM
mitted battery on the child, and notified
him to be in court on Wednesday next
for sentence.