The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14
MORE WAR IN SYRIA
Taris Sahim Beats His
Wife Emily Who Costs
Him Money.

The cries of woman from a house
with doors and windows closed, the
yruff voices of angry and excited men,
The sound of blows falling heavily,
created considerable excitement on
Hargett street on Thursday night.
Investigation roved that the rucus
vas caused by one FariS Sahion beat
ing the wife of his bosom. He
cuffed her with thunderous blows" in
fact as we'll as in the way of poetic
description a la Stevie Crane.
When by-standers entered the blows
ceased and Emily Sahion, dusky and
comedy Syrian that she is, rushed out
Of the house with the heat of the
.Simoom in her face, the flash of the
iioness in her eye and the passion OF
her war-like race in her tumultuous
words.
While the crowd stood about with
the fascinated yet uneasy interest that
seems to be peculiar to those who
witness family brawls.. Emily Sahion
stood in the midst and voiced her in
iignation in a torrent of passionate
sound that went at one moment into
the chanting creScendo of splitting
curses and fell away at the next into
the hysteria of angry tears. At one
instant erect, defiant, she pointed the
finger of universal scorn at the hus-
band who fingered and muttered un-
der the fire of her invective; at the
next she stood swaying and moaning
and wrapping her shawl over her
head and appealing to the sympathy
Of the crowd in broken phrase of
grief, while all those who stood by
Shuffied impatiently and the dark
skinned husband, his anger swallowed
up in apprehension at the publicity of
the scene. fingered nervously at his
black muStache.
He hit me with hatchet!
screamed Emily Sahion, and her coun-
trymen ScoWled at the black-broWed
Faris.
The latter wrinkled his eyes at the
falSity of the charge. He waved
deprecatory and submissive hand.
"Naw!' he grunted YEARLY, mo hit
no tooch u"
In mayors court yesterday the mat
ter was retailed for the benefit of
the usual crowd. Earlier in the day
the case had been postponed until
pr. McGeachy could make an exami-
nation as to the injuries of the wo-
man. He testified that she. was un-
hurt with the exception of several
bruises on the arm such as might
have been caused by the rough hold of
a strong man.
Sam Thomas, another Syrian. swore
that he was in the house and that no
blow was stricken-and that he was
the nephew of Faris Sahion.-
Others among whom We're Rosa
Lewis and Susan Hopkins testified that
they had both seen and heard the
blows.
The mayor weighed the testimony
and delivered Judgment of 1925,
| which Faris paid with a grudging
grunt.
mo more / don't him live With
remarked the satisfied Emily Sahion.
"Naw!" grunted Faris as he went
Iaway-"naw!! Don't not then!"
But the trouble is-she will.
FariS Sahion is the man with the
bent shoulders who runs a junk shop
and peanut rooster at the back of the
market house; and Emily Sahion is the
woman with the shawl and the rings
in her ears who may be seen at in
tervals in the interior of the shop.
1t was she who was recently
charged with accusing Mary Thomp-
son, a Syrian with incontinence. The
case was compromised, and, possibly,
| it was the money spent then by Farls
that brought the ultimate blows.