The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-18
BOXES Her Ears AND
CONES TO GRIEF
Surprised Spouse Shrieked
"Murder!'' and Police Took
Her jealous Lord


Special to Daily Leader.
Chicago. H., March rs, A jealous
husbapd, an incauhous wife aud q
telephone conversa..on
The combination prod0ced chain
Of events which included the BOXING
Of the ears Of Mrs. Jesse Rosen, 2G24
Wentworth avenue, by her husband
while he insists. she was expecting
another man. on a crowded street j..
Hammond, and Rosens immediate
commitment 10 the county jail for six
months, besides the imposition of o
fine of $50 and costs.
The sentence was fixed by q judge
who failed to appreciate Rosens IN
dignation at having been mistliye8
over the telephone by his vile for
another man. as he believes. with
whom she was willing to make an ap
poiplment
Rosen recently became imbnei with
The idea that Mrs Rssen's love FOR
him was being diverted 20 another
After much thought ne Il a. Used a plar
10 confirm his suspicious. ~ would
call her on the telephone represent
himself as his rival and await develop
mcn,s.
lie did
Gets Wife on the Wire.
Us that YOU deauc? he inquired
tenderly Disgusting -, ton's as much
as possible when the well kaowr
voice OF his wife sounded IN the re
ceiver.
Receiving the required assuranc,
that IL was indeed 'doarie. he pursued
the advantage with the further in
quiry:
"Can you meet me this afternoon
In Hammond at the posto,fIce2
Mrs Rosen could and would. IL her
interlocutor would be 30 e'ud as 10
specify tho hoar.
MAKE it o'clock murmured
Rosen SO hoarsely that Mrs. l,osen
asked solicitously whether he had
caught cold
To avoid further earicsiiy on ls
part he hung up the receiver.
AT the hour appointed Rosen WA
at the trysting place. Fire Was IN niF
who passed while he waited SO that
one or two of the coarser sort de
manded to know, Who 70 you look
ing at?"
Then Mrs. Rosen appeared. She
was attired in what Mr.. Rosen consid
cred entirely too much style merely
for the keeping OF an engagement
with man other than himself, and he
thought she lrowned with yeXation
when she saw him instead Of the mar
he believed she expected
Boxes Ears Of Spouse.
SO, without a word, he stepped M
and boxed her ears.
He was about to do IL again when
Mrs. Rosen, recovering from her
smazement screamed murder twice
The crowd which swarmed seized
Rosm and was about 90 deal summar
lily with him when two hammond po
| licemen strolled 10 the scene They
took charge of 3osen.
Unfortunately for him. the iuriss be
/ fore whom he was arraigned within
few moments was Judge w. " McMa
han. known as The terror of wiif
I DtuAhANs HhNHI hi'MNAAhil N'AAfA 'f'
EMS statement of his doubts and sua
picions and OF his really ingc. loua usf
of the tcleDh0ne as a detective device
Also he listened 10 Mrs Roscn's tear
/ ful dlsayowmeht of wrong intention
aud protests that she knew al al0nf
that it was her husband at The othel
ond Of the wire. but had no idea j
was such a live wire.
Then Judge McMahan fixing Rosei
with stern gaze declared that h'
should be ashamed to have resorte'
no such methods and that he was de
serving OF seyer0st censuro for entrap
lping his wife into a olandestine meet
ing. and he drove the lesson home b.
Icopeladinf with the words
FIFTY dollars and costs and ai
months in the county Jail