Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-04
HACKS HUSBAND
WITH A CHISEL
MRS. WEIGH OF WATTS AGAIN
ON WARPATH
Gains AdmIttance to second-story
Window by Means Of Ladder and
Like a Tlaress Attseks
LIese Lord

After brooding over her domestic
troubles for the past three weeks, Mrs.
Myrtle welch went to her husband 8
home ct Watts station late Wednesday
night, and, according to the allegations
of the district attorney, climbed up a
ladder to the second story Of the
building, burst in the glass and at
tackled Welch with a chisel.
According to the story Of WEIGH, told
at the district attorneys office yester-
day morning, the woman attacked him
like tigress, allowing him no time to
spring from his bed. She, II Is alleged,
stabbed him in the left leg with a
chisel inhictlng a wound two inches
long.
Then a scuffle ensued. and when
Welch emerged he bore fifteen neat in
cisions in the flesh Of his arms and
body where the pearly teeth Of his
wife had found target.
When Welch succeeded in escaping
from the enraged woman he called in a
woman who had been waiting for Mrs.
Welch and the two managed to get
the belligerent wife out of the house.
Welch then hastened to a nearby
neighbor's, where his wounds were ex-
amined and given treatment Yester-
day morning he appeared before Dep
uty District Attorney Paul Mccormick
and swore out a. warrant for the ar
rest of his wife.
Exhibits the Cuts
welch told the following story of the
fight ,and exhibited the cuts and in
cisions on his arms and body as evil
dence He turned his gashe and
blood-soaked clothes over to the Off
GERS to be used as evidence along with
al long. blood-stained chisel, said to
have been the weapon used in the at
tack.
''Since my last trouble with my wife,
during which we engaged in an alter
cation in my pool room," he said, 81
have lived at Watts while my wife
lived in Los Angeles. She frequently
visited me at Watts station and on
every occasion created trouble.
Late Wednesday night. or it might
have been very early Thursday MORN
ing, 1 was startled by a buggy stop
ping in front of my home in Watts.
paid no attention to the incident until
awoke with a start a few minutes
later to see the figure Of a woman
gradually appearing at the window of
my room. / was on the second story
J. of the building and 1 could see that
the woman was climbing up ladder.
Before l could leave the bed she
burst in the glass and leaped into the
room. / was only partly clothed and
started to spring toward her when
saw 1t was my-wife. She leaped at
me and struck me in the leg with what
I thought was a knife. l later found
it was a chisel.
i'I fell back across the bed and
felt that the wound in my leg was a
dangerous one. My wife leaped at
me and threw herself upon me, beat
ing and clawing me with all her might.
I felt her teeth break the skin on my
chest, my arms and my hands and !
fought her off and held her while
called to a woman who had accom-
panied my wife. They had driven out
to Watts station from Los Angeles.
Two overpower Woman
"The woman came to the room and
the two of us managed to get my wife
back to the buggy and she drove away.
My wife has caused me much trouble,
and If 1t wasn't for the fact that
cannot dispose of my property here
would leave the country, for 1t is not
big enough for the two of u.s.
The Welch family first became known
to the district attorney when Welch
was arrested on charge of conduct
ing a blind pig. Troubles of-a domes-
tic nature were frequent at the Welch
pool room and at last Mrs. Welch fired
through a Pacific Electric car because
she said she thought her husband was
on 1t.
She was fined 500 for disturbing the
peace and then released with a warn
ing TO leave her husband alone.
A second warrant for her arrest was
issued yesterday by Deputy McCor-
mick In which assault with a deadly
weapon and several other charges of a
serious nature were made.
The warrant will be. served on Mrs.
Welch today and she will be taken
to the county Jail to await trial.