The evening world., 1903-12-04
Gafney's Married e
Spent in Jail for Wife, Beating I

The only times that the familiar motto. God Bless Our Home" could
be placed o view in the apartments of Mrs. Edward Garney. No. $40 Man
haitian avenue Williamsburg. during the last quarter of a century were
during the intervals that her savage husband was in Jail for beating her.
And according to Magistrate oReily. of the Even Street Court,
williamsburg, the history of criminology does not record a cas of more
persistent brutality than is contained in the married career OF this same
Ganney. who a arragned before him yesterday for knocking his wife
insensibe with a heavy iron coffee pot
1T have investigated this mans record" said the Magistrate. "aad
am Mortified to think that the human race ar produces any SUCH species
of brute. For more than twenty years this man has made his wifes iie a
hell. her only happy moments being passed while he ~&s @auhned in Jail
Even then she was in constant terror of his return. ..
MAY SEND HIM TO JAIL G LEE.
Such a man should not be allowed at large and an soinG to &C
everything in my power to send him to prison for the resi- CT his n%eera4
life. 1 believe with the facts I have at my command I can oonViH;. hin as
an habnual criminal II s o a life penalty is the punishment the law pre-
scribes."
Mrs. Elizabeth 'Ganney the hapess wife of this wretch, returned u
hr home ron ST. GATHERINGS Hospital .a-aa.. lsqr pcdy is / 5.as5ss OF
bruises and welts. her face and head are cut in twenty places and one arm
is swollen. to twice its natural size as the result Ct the last beating she re-
osived.
81 married Edward Ganney twenty-stx yeas ago IN tho. f,ce OF warn
ings from relatives and friends because loved a@d Hrs:aa Lin" shs said
to-day. "Te did lot exhibit his brutal nature ului ta r;s.s I.:ra my
first baby was born, when he attacked me- beat mt to Ars foor ad threw
me into, the street. My baby was born at the home OF Z neghoor
LIFE M DREADFUL HORROR.
From then until tho present day my life has been a dreadful night
mare. For the first six years bore the torture of ny exi.4eace wdLoul
complaint 1 was strong physically and hoped against noyc that a change
might come we him. But ct last he displayed such a my IN his at
tacks on me that l feared for my life and was persuaded to have him ar
rested.
THAT vas nineteen years ago. They sent him to prison for six months
After his release he came home. For a few weeks he seemed cowed. Thea
night without warning he struck me down with a chair and beat ne
yer the head with an iron kettle. AGAIN had him arrested and again he
was sent to prison.
HAPPY WHEN HE WAS AWAY.
Since then. throughout the nineteen years. he has spent most of his
life behind bars. and my only happy moments were when knew he was
locked up in a cell. But W then used to lay awake nights shuddering
1t the thought Of his homecoming. =.
THE last time they sent him up for two years and six months He had
almost killed m at that last beating. He used a piece OF crowbar and left
me fol dead o the floor. During that long interval of his absence 1 was
comparativeiy happy. though had to work hard for a living for myself and
daughter. .f
"e was released carly this week and. though I had moved in IN effort
4, avoid him. lie found his way TO our home. For two days he did not raise
his hand to me, but / could zee that he was working himself up to q pitch
Of fury and long before he attacked me prayed him to spare me.
.IIe found his excuse for his final rage in his dispieasuro at the coffee
Errt he struck me with q plato. Then he heat me with his hands and kicked
M At last he seized tho heavy coffee pot and pounded me on the head and
hodv. When my eighteen yeag-old daughter interered he struck her down
I'VE were both taken to the hospital. My only hope for happiness is that he
M be sent to prison for life" I
) IN COURT HE URDER
As Gafney was led from before Magistrate oRely to the prison penh be
doesn't I will Kill her for surea at my first opportunity" l.
Disrict-Attorney Clark said to-day that under the statute n man
could be adjudged an haMtual criminal IL he had been convicted of wife
heating "a misdemeanor) five times. Ganney has been convicted more than
ten F. n .-g ,.e. n
81 understand that this is an aggravated case" said Mr.. Clark and
when all the facts are laid before me will do all In my power to npnIsb
this brute a he deserves" Er'"" .