The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-09
A BRUTAL
HUSBANDl
lie Receives a Sentence
That Should be a Les
SOntO Wife Beat= NJ
erS. N
Judge Ball showed this morning thSS

Judge Ball showed this morning thSS
wife beaters need not expect to aet ~
with light punishment when they coSyo
before be city court 4s' s4s'
Thomas q. Dollard was charged by ~
father William Dollard. with being drunI
costs. ~ . Y ss
William 7. Lynch was charged BY O6i11
Ger MARI with being drunk and disordsfs&
ly. He was fined 50 and costs. Z ~
Wliiiein II. Stevenson was Charged
with being drunk. He promised Is ~
good and the case was dismissed.
| Mary Patton withdrew the charee I'll
d'sorderly conduct preferred against No.
husband. He will take the pledge ID sf,.
stain from Intoxicating liauor. N 9g
Alfred Wright, colored, pleaded ouilf1;%
to keeping q house Of ill-fane and NJ 4
lined $50 and casts. n All
Sarah Harris, colored charged har hYsss
Dahd with assault and battery. She wallIy Vi
ed with difficulty from her seat to ths wits
ness stand She testified that he knockeda IA
ner down and brutality assaulted her. N IN
hane hnnew her Gown stairs and then brutaliY IS
peat her again. The trouble arose over 4 B2
lotter which he had written to another N
woman. She works evory day and paya,&
the rent of the house. He has treo ed ~
horribly. She found he love" lettsrs lIrI.
aer ms pillow. Witness handed two aES
tne letters to Judge Ball. and be shower W
one OF them to Harris but he denied that K
he knew anything about it, -
Charles Minus testified that thu WON =, ls2
was thrown against his door and she and n
Harris came into his room, He aaw M sf8
blows struck. Harris was sentenced a ls
pay fine OF 800 and costs, and to be i'm 3
'rlsoned In New Castle Jail for term of s$&
me year. N, IA ~ ~
Edward Boyer, colored, was charged III
Mn NJ. assault ana battery on John Vauce. 4Ai
| ne latter has been at tho Delaware Hos. \,
'ltal up to yesterday. He had been in.
ureu In the lower part Of the abdomen.
10 "a claimed bo was struck by brick.
[hefe is no permanent injury and thsre III
we're no outward marks. Owing to Boyer'a
ouhsel not being In attendance the case 4.
7as continued until Monday morninp, aS
In the case of Frank Cannon, eoiored.
,i.nesses testified that Cannon struck the
'oman Annie Semple, because She oaiied
I'm foul name. He was fined IS and
)sts. W 's ~',s sS sS
James Martin, Hugh Grubb and VIII III
am hickman, three small boys, weno s
Aarged with the larceny of boxes Of to- II "
latoes the property of a commission NOR I'd
iant. William Tucker heard board 1
'aGk ana soon afterwards saw Martin
isn Two tomatoes. Giubb was not la
le gang Later he saw them throwing II
10 tomatoes at people along the street.
hen he saw Grubb eating part of a to- NJ
ato. The boys said that they had taken
whole crate of tomatoes, r'f3sfSSS
Daniel Smith. aged 10 years, deposed he fl
as sitting on Tho steps at his house at 3
'urth and French streets. There were HI
{ boys in the crowd at the time
The hree boys acknowledged that they vi
OK the tomatoes. Gruhb and Hickman
'ro IN the city court yesterday morning
n charge of disorderly conduct S
Agent Stout will investigate the case W 1
,rning. - " 3a