Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-09
WHY FISHER
BEAT HIS WIFE
SALACIOUS STORY OF DOMESTIC
DIFFICULTY TOLD IN PO-
LICE COURT.
THE o N VARIED THE
TALE OF WRONG-DOING.
Showed Many Marks Of Husbands
Wrath-Said He Slept With
Knife Under His Pillow.

The morning session of police cour was
decidedly warm and while Mr.. and Mrs.
Chris Fisher aired their domestic differ
ences and told the STORY of two blighted
lives the temperature of the room rose
several degrees and the place was cleared
of female spectators.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher live on Mahoney
street, a locality that is seldom unrepre-
sented in the city Jail. They We're mar
ried min months ago and after this brief
season of welded bliss the husband, ac-
cording to his story as told on the wit
ness stand, came home yesterday unex-
pected1yS now he does not put his
wife in the same class as Caesars.
Mr.. Fisher was industriously engaged
In pounding some sense and virtue into
Mrs. Fisher when a policeman arrived,
put a stop to the encounter and arrested
both. Both We're charged with disturb
ing the peace.
i Mrs. Fisher was a sight to behold when
she put in an appearance at police our
this morning. Both eyes were black
and blue. and on the top of her head was
q bald spot about THE size of a dollar
where the hair had been pulled out by the
roots. Her face and neck and shoulders
were a mass of bruises, earmarks of the
ruffled affections of her welded lord. But
her vocal organs escaped injury and she
could talk a blue streak.
When the case was called Fisher en-
tered a plea of guilty and Mrs. Fisher
pleaded not guilty. Fisher then proceed
ed to tell the narrative Of his wrongs.
Your Honor" said he, II came home
from my work about 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and went out to do some mar
keting. When I had gotten a short dis
lance away I saw two young men go into
my house. I waited. Presently n came
out with a pail IN his hand. Then I slip
ped up to the door, which was unlocked
and went In" Here followed some tes-
timony unfit for publication. What Fish
err says he saw would entitle him to a
divorce anywhere. 1.-The young man in
the room,' continued Fisher ''got out in
a hurry. MY wife tried to make. me be-
lieve that she had been assaulted"
The wife. according to Fishers state
ment, then got away and returned with a
number Of her friends, and the husband
was compelled to lock himself up in the
house to avoid violence.
Mrs. Fishers sworn statement conflict
ed somewhat from the story told by her
husband. She denied the charge Of inf.
deity and said the nine months she haG
lived with Fisher a been altogether toe
athletic for her. She SAID she was cook.
ing supper last night when too little boy:
came in. The judge wanted to know how
old these boys were n she replied tina
che was about II and the other Is year.
of age.
Then she told TIE story of the assault
Of Fishers courtship. of their marriage
"He's ttreacherous" she said. "He sleeps
with a butcher knife under his pillow
He's always telling me how bad I an
and fighting me-. I la a bunch of hail
in my trunk that he pulled out of here
and she exhibited the bald spot OF tht
top of her head.
The Judge took the matter under ad
visement.
Josie Olson. Celia Decker Howe ani
Katie Mahorev. arrested last night on {
charpe Of vagrancv entered pleas of no
guilty this morning and will be tried Fri
dav. Their bonds were. fixed at $50 each
Charles Gugnon. a secretary, entered
plea of not guilty to the charge of va
grancv and the case against him wa!
! continued until Friday.