The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-06
GIVEN ANOTHER AIRING
The Troubles of j. D. Horwitz
and His Wife.
ACQUITTED BY A JURY
Horwitz Was Charged With Assault by
His Wife. Who Was Afterwards
Caught in a Compromising Sit
uation With Another Man.

The troubles between J. u. Horwitz
and his wife, which a recently been
given considerable publicity. were Civ
en- another airing yesterday in Justice
Laurandeau's court, when a jury ac-
quilted Horwitz of assaulting his wife.
IL will be remembered Mrs. Horwitz
had her husband arrested on the 18th
of July for beating her. At hat time
she told a sorrowful story of abuse on
the part of her husband which gained
her much sympathy. Subsequently
Horwitz caught his wife in a comprom-
ising situation with Milkman Christian
Walther, and filed a suit for divorce.
Horwitz' attorney succeeded in inject
ing enough of the wife's guilty rela-
tons with Walther into yesterdays
trial to convince the jury the husband
was the aggrieved party. if either, and
this undoubtedly had much to do with
the verdict. The state was represented
in the trial by Attorney Roy Alley as
special prosecutor. and Attorney Parr
conducted the defense.
The trial came up at . o'clock i'm the
afternoon. Mrs. HorwitZ, the complain
ing witness, was first called to the
stand She testified that on the date
mentioned in the complaint her hus-
band choked and beat her and tore her
clothes because she accused him of be-
ing untrue to her. and as a consequence
she was unable to work for several
days.
on cross-examination Attorney Parr
asked how the difficulty between her
and her husband arose. Mrs. HorwitZ
replied:
Il chastised him for being untrue to
me and / had him dead to rights"
Attorney Parr then asked lis il RI
hat on the 27th of July your husband
caught you in a compromising situation
with one Walther?"
The question was objected to by the
state on the ground that if such a thing
occurred IL was subsequent to the date
of the complaint and the court instruct
ed the witness she need not answer the
question unless she chose.
Mrs. Horwitz was excused and Mrs.
White of 81 North Washington street
was called. She testified that on the
10Th of July she heard screams coming
from the Horwitz residence at No. 312,
but she did not know who 1t was who
was screaming.
The defense opened by calling Police
Officer Eugene Shea to the stand. At
torney Parr asked, Did you on the
evening of the 9th of July enter the
house of the defendant n complaining
y o. a a W Tlili AOli
and find Mrs. Horwitz inc one c. Wal
Their in a compromising sit%uation?"
The question was objected to and the
objection sustained. but Attorney Parr
succeeded in arguing the question. in
getting before the jury what he sought
by explaining that he wished to show
the jury that the prosecuting witness
had had her husband arrested to keep
him away from the house while she car
ried on her guilty relations with an
other a This, he held. would show
the animus of the prosecution.
Horwitz was next called. He testi-
fled that his wife accused him of inf
deity N dragged him off TO Walker
Vile to confront the woman she accused
him of being intimate with. The trip
came to nothing, and he was not i'm the
best of humor when they got home. He
demanded some papers she had in her
possession, n i'm trying TO get them
he grabbed her by the wrist. He de-
MED absolutely that he had struck her.
In the arguments Attorney Parr again
referred to the woman's guilty alliance.
under protest by the states attorney.
but by indirect allusion he succeeded in
getting before the jury what he desired.
that the complaining witness had been
guilty of ~infidelity and had her husband
arrested both to direct suspicion from
herself and to rid her of his presence.
1t took the jury but a few minutes TO
reach a verdict Of acquittal.