The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-05

| that even as she lay in bed, too weak Il
| rise, this man struck heragain and sgain
| Besides, lie began To tie irregular in hi
work. and lost position after position b,
reason 81 his untamaiple temper. His wife !
| family had opposed her marriage, and wei,
| deaf to her appeals for aid.
So she had t. trust to her ow n labors fol-
| support The toughest work was none too
rough Tor her. Sewing, scrubbing, house
leaning anything that would give hei
bread, she labored at. and the man went IN
from da Y to day adding to his black record.
John Roth foreman in ochs' brewery,
williamsburg. told that Steiger was feared
by other wOrkmer on account OF his Ieroc
ity. On the slightest provocation he
would fight. and no weapon was too heavy
for his hand. He was arrested several
times for atrocious assaults.
Asaninstance or his brutality Mrs. Steiger
tells how Cnce she came home to find
him hiding william, then child, over
the stove. The little fellow was scream
ing, and without a thought for herself the
woman flung herself at her husband aid
snatched the boy away. Kick from tile
man sent the lad gasping into corner.
and he then beat his wife until she was
unconscious. The same reward WIS hers
W hen she tried tC rescue her little daugh-
tiers from cruel heating.
A doctor who visited the house once
during a SMALLPOX scare was ST. shocked
that he notified the Society for the Pre-
vention OF Cruelty TO Children. An agent
called and Steiger promised To reform. The
Official had hardly left when the man
turned on his wife and beat her senseless
Mrs. Leonard Kobeper, a sister or Mrs.
Steiger, used sometimes TO interfere, but
il was at the risk Of her life. She was
widow before she married Kobener, and
Mrs. Steiger would have received some
property It her death. The ma rriaee. there
fore, incensed Steiger, and Mrs. Kobener
says he ono" tried to poison her. She re-
fused demand from him for money in
July, 1883, and soon after, he broke into
the house ut night. Kobener tried 20 eject
him, and Steiger attacked him with a
jimmy.
Irs. Kobner tried to- aid her husba nd, but
was clicked into insensibility. Steiger spent
six years III the penitentiary for this crime.
Mrs. Kobener was unconscious for two weeks
and was under the doctors care for three
months.
A distinguished phrenologist who made
acareful examination OF Meyer s head as he
sat in the courtroom yesterday said that
the organs of hope, veneration, spiritual
iUy aud beneyoience are all far below the
normal Such development indicates a
man without any respect for any authority
and one given to fits Of deep dependency.
The shape Of the back of the head is a lso
most peculiar. This is the seal of the organs
OF Friendship and love Of home. In Meyers
head there are almost entirely lacking. The
bead seems 10 be cut away at this point
He Is lacking In friendlineSs and is one of
those men who look upon humanity at large
as a nuisance.
Meyers intelligence, however, is good
his reasoning is clear, and he seeks to get
to the bottom of things.
Heyer has also large development Of the
selfish propenstties, the organs Of oom-
bativeness. secretiveness and destructive
ness. These are Indicated by large de-
velopment behind and around the ears.