The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-30
HER BIFF AT DIFF
MRS. DIPPENDBRFER WRITES a
LETTER TO CHEF CAMPBELL.

Mr., Diffenderfer Makes a Call on His Wife
and smashes Things Up In General
Which Calls for Letter-NIrs. Dinen-
derfer Says He Stole Pump and Some
Pine and Now He Wants to Pull IL Up
While Drunk He Pours Coal oil on Her
Thanksgiving Turkey and Kills the
Only Little Pig I'm the Family.
There are three things which consti-
tute life with s. N. Diffenderfer-getting
drunk, beating his wife and going to JAIL
Mrs. Diffenderfer has her spells Of re-
lief, however, owing to the assistance OF
the police. After Mr. Diff had been ar
rested for INDUCING too freely, Chief
Campbell received the following epistle
from Mrs. Diffenderfer. II was address
ed: "Mr. Campbell Chief City Building
City"
Mr.. Chief Campbell
Sir
Diffenderfer has swiped pump and
put It in here and ne sweares he is going
10 pull it up or kill me | want you TO see
about it as L cant help myself ne has de-
stroyed everything on the place any
way he put the Butter Baking powder
celery pepper and everything in the flour
Barrel with about 40 pound of -four and
poured gallon of coal oil in it and all
over my Baked turkey and pies and then
went to the pen and killed the little pig
and said he would kill the whole outfit
and had a loaded Revolver.
MRS. DIFFENDERFER.
Last May Mr.. Diffenderfer got alto
gether too much Of the liquid that is
supposed to cheer and called on his wife
and proceeded 10 give her a thrashing.
l. is claimed that neighbors stepped III
and saved the woman's life. Diff evaded
the officers for some time but was finally
arrested and brought before Judge Glenn
where he was given jail sentence. At
that time while being escorted to the
county jail Mr.. Diffenderfer soliloquized
in the following hardly ineligible SEN
tence:
"G-z-e-ei I'll fight her to a fraz. This
thing Cnic) o. sending man (hic) ter Jail
every time the lamp goes dry is too (hic)
much Of a fudge. W-h-o-op! G-Z-e-eI
G-Z-o-o-"
The records at the county commission
ers' office show that while Mrs. Diffen-
derfer is free to ask for -four, Mr.. Diffen-
derfer wants TO destroy it. For several
years past the little books kept by the
commissioners show that Mrs. Offender
fer has been a regular pa tron and has
Eubsisted off the county. For over two
years the books show different items
given to Mrs. Diffenderfer. until in April,
1895, when on the margin of the book is
written in a bold hand: mo more. Man
In Jail. Reported not married.
Mrs. Diffenderfer used to live on a
farm near Augusta with her first hus-
band (and maybe her LASH. She has sew
eral children, one OF them a comely little
girl about 20, who does not stay at home
on account OF Mr.. Diff. The daughter
says that "he is too ornery to live and
ought to be killed" However that may
be ne is now in jail with a ten-dollar fine
standing against him. Some say that
Mr.. and Mrs. Diffenderfer are not mar
red but she has a marriage certificate
which Mr.. Diff, while ON a tear some
three or four years ago, tore up. Mrs.
Diffenderfer picked up the pieces and
pasted them together and Il now looks
very much like a crazy quilt made by
some young ladies' sewing circle. Mrs.
Diffenderfer resides at 312 South Fourth
avenue, where Mr.. Diff is wont to gambol
about on the sunny side of the avenue
Some Of Mrs. Diffenderfers neighbors
are unkind enough to say that she fell
in love with Mr.. Diff while ne was en-
ployed on her first husbands farm in
Butler county and eloped with him and
that after that her first husband secured
a divorce from her. The whole family
originally came from Missouri. which
probably accounts for Mr. Diffenderfer
trying to 'show her,