The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-11-03
SHOCKING BRUTALITY
CHARGED TO HUSBAND
Woman Locked Up in Attic and
Starved, on Pretext That
She Was insane.
HE GETS $50 MONTHLY
Upon Representation That His Wifi
Was Insane, He Collected This
Sum Regularly from she
Commissioners. !

Bonesteel, S. d, Nov. 1.-The coun-
ty commissioners of Gregory county
have for the past year been paying
Guy Greenough, a husky young farmer
of this county, the sum OF $50 per
month for caring for his partially de-
mented wife. Recently it was report-
ed to the commissioners that Green
Ough was apPrUpriatilg the money to
other purposes and neglectiitg and
abusing his family. The commissioners
appointed DR.. III. II. kennaston and
States Attorney w. b.. Backas of this
place as a committee to visit the
'Greenough home and make y report of
the conditions as they found tnenl. In
accordance With said order the gen
tlemen visited he place yesterday and
an at home With her babe OF Is months,
the other children, four in number.
having been taken away by tne father.
The house IN Which trey lived was
built of logs, one story high. consisting
of one room and an attic, situated i'll
a secluded gulch or ravine on Whet-
some creek, ten miles from Bonesteel.
The racks between the logs i'll the
building were open and the cold wind
was blowing through the, building.
causing occupants and visitors alike TO
shiver from the extreme cold. y Visit
to the attic revealed the piaee where
Greenough last summer had locked up
his wife and kept her q prisoner for
many days. The room was about s by
,,;th n,,,u w 49, ,, M'1a ~ 5dnsit air
and what Inc coor ,go,,aan s,1ffared
from heat and otherwise during this
time no II can tell.
"a lseea his nrisn,er wife fro, oscans
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rr5,,,e affai, ANA ,,-as Font eloaed Nv
= loc,, nf marn,,,ost,, siya whei,
Greeno,nh v,o,1ld leaye bor19e ;ss yvo1,ld
locly bis ,vife ana 1aabv in 4his ottic
and yo,,ld he absent for d., AT y
tir,e leavinr then, harel,. eno,ish food
to keen thai5 fro,, Starvation. nnd with
scarcely enough clothing TO Kids their
uakedness.
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HE 10 make Them last her fwo weeks
for fuel. There was no food in the
house, but the n%eighbors assisted by
one of the county commissioners who
LIVED in that locality, had an abundance
of food en- route to the place and the
same day ample provision was made to
feed the almost fan1ished mother and
babe.
Mrs. Grecnough is a more than ordi-
nary handsome woman. about 25 years
of age, and was clad in an Old calico
dress, showing the wear and tear of
long Usage. Several patches In front
indicated that the frugal wife had
taken great care to make the dress last
as long as possible. The little Il VAS
miserably clad in a light ragged calico
dress and on one foot had a ligh: stock
ing from which the little toes pro-
truded and on the other foot two stock
ings We're in evidence.
The mother suggested that the chi]d's
feet were Very cold creeping over the
floor and frozen ground. 1t appear