Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-15
Sensational CHARGES
Prominent Young Couple OF
Story County Figure In
Divorce Court
STARTLING ACCUSATIONS MADE
wife Claims Her Husband Re-
peatedly Horsewhipped Her and
Knocked Her Down With His Fists
Claims Her Health Has Been Ruined
and Life Endangered.
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special to T1meS-RepuDllcaH.
Nevada, Oct. 5.--One Of the most APP
palling cases of brutality and human
depravity has just been pictured i'm a
divorce petition filed with the clerk of
the district court Of this county. If
the charges made by Mrs. Katie Et-
nire against her husband, Samuel Et-
nire, Jr.. be true, the woman has lived
. life which few people could bring
themselves to imagine an American
woman would ever bring herself to suf-
fer. The case ia all the more as
tonishing when the fact Is taken into
consideration that the parties to the
suit are among the best known and
progressive young people in the west
orn part OF the county. When the
charges alleged by the plaintiff became
known the people OF that part of the
county could hardly force themselves
to believe them. In her petition now on
file in the Office of the clerk OF courts
she says:
That they were married In Nevada
on September %, 901 and that they
lived together as man and wife unui
the 9Th inst. That defendant ever
since the year 1902 has INDUCED in
calling her vile names. That In Sep
TENDER, 1902, when she was sick, he
struck her heavy blow In the race
with his hand and knocked her down
because she tried to persuade him not
to 60 out and steal watermelons that
evening. That in the month of April,
1909, a few days prior to the birth of
her child, the defendant, without any
provocation whatever, assaulted her
while in q rage, with buggy whip and
chased her into bed room and only
desisted when implored by her while
on her knees, to consider before he
struck woman in her condition.
"That on July 3. 1908, he compelled
her to shave his neck with razor. He
then swore at her and said that she
was trying to pull the hair out of his
neck and finally jumped up and as
saulted her by throwing two large
sticks of wood at her which she was
only saved from by lodging. That on
divers rtNer times he struck her " tn
his f different parts of the body.
with cause, and that after these
occu, she would talk with him
and i'm that she could not en-
A,,re conduct, and that unless he
would stop she would have to leave
him.
"A times he would seem penitent
ana sorry for what he had done, and
promise never to offend again if she
would only remain with him. Not
withstanding this, on October 30, 1908,
ne horsewhipped her so severely that
plaintiff carried the marks on her per-
son for several days. and since that
time he has frequently chased her with
Z horse whip and the only way she
could escape horsewhipping was to
run toward her nearest neighbor's.
when he, thru fear of being discovered,
would stop. That In January Of this
year, he again whipped her, with RAJ
nor strop SO severely that she carried
the marks on her person for a month.
That ne continued his brutal treatment
up to May ~, 1904, when he struck her
IN the mouth with his fist, knocked
her down, and caused her lips to be
30 badly swollen that they remained
afflicted for several days. That at
different times he called her obscene
names, and on the 18th of September
he whipped her by striking her several
times with a willow club, she carrying
the marks for several days. just be-
cause she persisted in wearing pair
OF slippers which were given to her by
her nareYfs"