The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-05
SPICY CASE HEARD
|. IN The CITY COURT
Action of the State VS.. Robbins
For Assault and Battery
Is Now on Trial.
A WOMAN PROMINENT.
PEARS TO BE THE REAL CAUSE
OF THE RECENT ROUGH AND
TUMBLE FIGHT.

The case of John Robins and Avis
Robbins. charged with assault and bat
terry on Peter Beatty. middle aged
lrishman. was heard in the city court.
The hearing of the case occupied the
attention of the court all morning and
the forepart of the afternoon. and was
by far the spiciest heard in the city
court for months.
AS usual. there was a woman in the
case Mrs. Beatty, the pretty young
wife of Peter Beatty. who is about
twenty five years his junior. She APP
peared as witness for the defendants.
From a plain assault and battery case
it developed into neighborhood scan
dal. Mixed in with the details of
rough and tumble fight in the baclo
yard of Beatty's next door neighbor,
was testimony ,of the giddy escapades
esting and inflammable love letter
To begin with. Beatty. in the witness
chair stated that he provoked quarrel
with Avis Robbins, whose name APP
pears as Roberts on the police docket,
Monday afternoon, on account OF his
attentions to Mrs. Beatty. who Beatty
stated frequently saw young Robbins at
the home of Robbins sister, Mrs. Clara
Nous, South Twelfth street He stat
ed that Monday morning Alvis Rob-
bins and his brother, John. passed his
home. and that Alvis talked with Mrs.
Beatty. Monday afternoon when tho
Robbins brothers passed by the house,
Beatty stated that he told Alvis Rob-
must cease and then called him a bad
name. Beatty then stated that John
Robbins struck him and that both
brothers started over the fence after
him. He picked up club, and "A
rough and tumble battle ensued in
which. Beatty stated, he was badly
beaten with a club and rock, not how
ever. until he had knocked Avis down
twice with club.
Told Different Version.
Avis and John Robbins told a diff
ferent version of the fight They told
how Beatty had provoked a quarrel
and had reached in his hip pocket with
a threat to kill Avis. The brothers
then testified that Alvis went over the
fence and was knocked down with
club welded by Beatty. Alvis yelled
for help and John ran into the yard 70
assist his brother. who had in the
meantime wrested the club from Beat
ty, and was having the best of the ar
gument. John dragged his brother
off of Beatty and they walked down
the street. A Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson,
in whose yard the fight took place.
testified that they had called Beatty's
attention to his wife's conduct AL
Wis Robbins denied that he had paid
attentions TO Mrs. Beatty. stating that
he had only a speaking acquaintance
with her.
Mrs Beatty took the chair and stated
hat her husband is quarrelsome and
Jealous and that Monday morning be
had twice struck her. She stated that
be had treated her in the manner be-
fore. She said that Beatty had un-
justly accused her of being friendly
with grocerymen. meat men and deliy-
cry men who came to the house. and
hat he threatened in her presence to
sill Alvis Robbins. She also stated
hat about a year ago she had asked
lim for - cents and he told her TO
earn her money as best she could.
To refute the testimony that Mrs.
Beatty had been unjustly accused by
Ter husband. Prosecutor Jessup intro
iuced a love letter which caused an
tilt between the Prosecutor
md Attorney b. G. Robbins. The
.ourt finally permitted it to be read.
he letter began My Dear Sweet
leart.'' and ended with zone thousand
.isses and a big hug The contents
# the letter was a request by the send
+ for Mrs. Beatty to meet him down
own. The signature to the letter was
ot read. but il was intimated by the
PROSECUTOR that it came from Avis
sobbins. The prosecutor also asked
frs. Beatty some embarrassing que8-
ions concerning trip to Dayton size
ad made last March.