The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-16

was foreman. His wife was alone much OF
the time with her two small children, car
ing for them with her best as q mother and
for her husband as she should. he was
not home.muoh of the time, but was busy
with outside matters which required both
his attention and his wages. Doubtless
the wife should not have asked for a snare
of his time for herself and of his wages for
their children, but she did.
For her unwisdom he lashed her with a
black snake whip over the head and across
the face and body. He had beaten her
with his fists as we'll and knocked her
down. He had kicked her when sho was
down and then had knocked the little boy,
who probably reached unto his knee, to
the floor beside the mother, and had
thrown the helpless infant back of the bod
against the wall. When Mrs. Groves beg
ged for mercy, he kicked and struck her
again. Then he went out of the house
with the strength of his manhood full up
on him.
When she could find strength, Mrs.
Groves struggled to her feet and staggered
to where the helpless baby lay and husbed
it's cries and soothed the older child as only
q mother can, and all the while the blood
| streamed from a six inch cut in her face
| which her lord ard master had made with
| the black snake, and all the while the por-
tions of her body which had felt the
/ strength of his beatings were stiffenlng
and swelling and the limbs that had felt
/ the force of his heavy boots were paining
and turning black and blue.
There are some men who will not kick
the veriest mongrel dog which scurries in
| their way. But hero is q man who, 1T is
charged, will kick the mother of his chill
dren and the keeper of his bonor-the
woman whom he has sworn to love and
cherish before God and al The woman
stood in the police station alone and sor-
rowful and i'll from her injuries, with one
troubled babe clinging to her skirts and
the other clasped in her aching arms.
The district attorney asked her why her
husband had beaten her. She answered
that she had asked him to give her his
wages and to let other women alone. The
tears rolled dow her cheeks and intensi-
fed the bruises and cuts in her skin as she
swore that he was not intoxicated when
be lifted his hand against her and her lit
tie ones; that be was as conscious OF what
he was doing then as she was at That min
ute, for he had beaten her on an average
three times a week, and she could endure
it no longer.
Deputy District Attorney Miller issued
the complaint that Mrs. Groves swore to
and Deputy Sheriff Wall went in search of
the man and arrested him. He went to
the police station peaceably enough and
was locked up without protest. His friends
obtained bail before the night was over,
and he was released from custody. He
acknowledges that he did lash his wife
with the black snake and beat her with his
hands and kick her with his feet.
He says that he will bear his punish
ment like a man, because he was angry
when he committed the deed OF a coward,
And he hopes for mercy from the courtl
When his wife plead for mercy, be threw
their children about brutaily and struck
/ her again who're she lay. But she was only
awoman, and he win plead guilty and
bear his punishment like a man and plead
for mercy!
He deniest that there is any other wom-
an in the case excepting perchance those
that dwell in the imagination Of Mrs
] Groves. He denies, too, that be held back
his wages from her. He claims that he
was q good husband until she let some
horses out of tho corral into the wheat
field. Then he lost control Of himself and
struck her while he was in q passion.
While the husband made his explana-
lions and declarations behind tho bars at
tho police station, awaiting the result Of
his friends search for bail, the wife took
her two babes and wandered forth into tho
night, looking for shelter for them and
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