East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-31
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Ed Swtzler will not go unpunished
by the law for the dastardly outrage
which he committed Saturday morn
ing. Although he was allowed to
| leave the city Saturday evening, 1t is
! now said that he will be brought back
and tried in the circuit court on the
charge of beating his wife This fore
noon a number of those who live in
the neighborhood of the Switzler
home and heard or saw the affair
were summoned before the district at
torney and questioned regarding it.
At the conclusion of this examination
it was said that information would be
filed against Switzler in the circuit
court, and that warrant for his ar
rest would be issued.
All day Saturday people We're dis
cussing the affair on the streets and
asking when the brutal husband
would be arrested. However, no COM
plant was made by any party and no
information was filed by the district
attorney. In answer to requests that
he take such action, MF. Phelps is
said to have replied that he would
wait until Monday. In the evening,
when it was learned that Switzler had
left town, general disappointment and
regret was expressed that he had not
been arrested.
1t is reported on good authority
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terday morning, and it is believed that
he is still there. He is said to have
left here about o'clock Saturday in
a buggy, which was secured at that
time from Carney & Kennedy's stable
by Tom Johnson, and which was re-
turned to the barn about 10 or IL
o'clock the same night.
Early Saturday evening n complaint
was made against Swtzler in the po-
lice court being sworn to by City At
torney Carter himself and a warrant
for arrest was issued. However, when
Officer Scheer undertook to serve he
found that his bird had flown.
The above complaint was the only
one issued against Switzler at all on
Saturday, and II was only done after
the failure to have a state charge
made. However, no one desired to see
the city case pressed, but instead to
have the wife beating law enforced,
Suit for Divorce.
Between 1890 and II o'clock Sat
urday night suit for divorce was filed
with the county clerk by Judge James
A. Fee in behalf of Mrs. Switzler, and
an order asked of Circuit Judge Ellis
restraining Switzler from selling
mortgaging or otherwise disposing of
any of his property. This request was
granted, and the order issued. 1t has
since been served upon the three local
banks, all of which were named as de-
PENDANTS in the suit so as to prevent
them delivering money, notes or other
valuables to the defendant.
In the complaint in the divorce suit
! it is stated that the two were married
! at Vancouver. Wash, on April 7, 1896,
! and that soon after that time the de-
| fendant began a course of cruel ana
! inhuman treatment towards the plant
| iff which has made her life burden
some. That at various times he has
come home at unreasonable hours of
the night and abused and maltreated
the plaintiff, and the affair of Satur-
day morning is mentioned In detail
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