Daily inter mountain., 1899-03-07
CUPIO'S BLACK EYE
The Dempseys, Newly Welded,
Fight to a Finish.
WIFE BRUTALLY BEATEN
Dempsey Also Assaulted Man Named
Ashton With a Knife--FOught
the Officer.
WIFE BRUTALLY BEATEN

Peter Dempsey and his bride of two
weeks were in Judge Ferrell's court this
morning. Their appearance was woe be-
Sone and bedragged. Dempsey's head
| looked as though it had been pushed into
a threshing machine. Mrs. Dempsey wore
a veil which but partially concealed the
! effects of a brutal blow, which she ad-
mits she received from her husband and
which she, Womanlike, excuses on the
ground of drunkenness.
The marriage of Dempsey and his wife
was chronicled in the Inter Mountain in
about two weeks ago, in a way that did
not please Mrs. Dempsey. She was very
indignant about it, The rumored cause
Of the marriage was not to the credit of
either, although the story was some
what exaggerated According to the
story Dempsey was inclined to pluck
/ forth the shaft with which Cupid had
punctured him in the interest Of his pros
! pective wife, and go the way of single
\ blessedness, but concluded at the last
| moment to marry.
/ After the wedding the Dempseys took
/ up their residence al 446 East Broadway.
| For a few days they lived in peace and
/ then came domestic alterations so vio-
J
was drawn toward them.
| Last night Mrs. Dempsey was not at
| the Dempsey domicile when the husband
came home. Incidentally it should be
| mentioned that the husband had par
taken too freely Of fighting whisky and
was looking for trouble as we'll as his
| wife. He went to the cabin of Tom
Ashton on Eas. Porphyry street and
kicked the door in. Ashton was cooking
| his supper. Dempsey accused him of try
| ing to ALLEVIATE the affections of his wife
and asked him to produce her instanter.
! Ashton replied that the woman was not
with him, and said he didn't care where
she was.
Dempsey considered Ashton's remark
about the whereabouts of Mrs Dempsey
| highly impertinent and disrespectful. and
he told Ashton so, and also told him to
get ready to take the best licking he
ever received in his life. Ashton pre-
pared. Dempsey opened hostiities, and
few seconds fighting Of exceedingly hot
work demonstrated to him that he could
not, unaided, teach Ashton to respect the
lady in the case, SO he drew a knife and
stabbed Ashton in the breast, inficting
an ugly wound.
Then Dempsey with his face marred
with the results of the fierce encounter,
went home. His wife had returned. The
fighting mood was still on. There was
do it. He hammered her numerically.
Her screams aroused the neghbOrs and
Officer Conlin was sent for When he ar
rived at the Dempsey home he found
Dempsey asleep in bed with blood stream
ing from the wounds received in the fight
with Ashton. Mrs. Dempsey sat beside
the bed, crying. Her face was in a hor-
ribe condition, the result of the beating
she had received from her husband
The officer told Dempsey to get up and
accompany him to Jail. Dempsey refused
| to do so and made a stubborn fight. 1t
was necessary to drag him to jail.
b Then the officer went back and arreste ted
Mrs. Dempsey on a charge of distur-
| bance.
! Roth pleaded guilty to the charge of
disturbance and were fined $40 each
| There is also a charge against Dempsey
! of assault in the third degree, which will
be brought up later.
Miss Mamie a Galena street woman
who robbed a man who visited her place
last night Of $3.50, pleaded guilty to the
charge of running a house Of prostitu
ton and was fined $40 and costs.