The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-11
YOUNG WIFE WAS
CHAINED TO FLOOR
Tells Justice How Husband
Lashed Body With Raw
hide Whip
PUTS SALT WATER
ON HER WOUNDS
Man is Placed Under Bond for
Twelve Months-His Mental
Condition May Also Be
Examined Into.

-RiYaling tales of -barbarie- cruelty
in unciyilized places was the pitlful
story Mrs. Mary Greenwood, a come
ly woman of twenty-one years, told
Justice Crutehfield In police court Sat
urday morning.
In a guileless manner she related
how she had been chained to the
floor by her husband. how she had
been stripped of clothing and whip
ped with a rawhide until blood
streamed from deep gashes in her
back: of having been tied hands and
feet and lsudanum forced into her
mouth while her nose was held by
the strong fingers of her strapping
husband: of how. while her back and
arms were bleeding from the wounds,
her inhuman companion poured salt
water upon the gashes. and then rub
bed turpentine over her body.
All of this and more the delicate
woman told. The court has heard
many tales of woe and different kinds
Of evidence, but never before has
such horrible recital of facts been
presented.
Mrs. Greenwood is the unfortunate
wife OF Logan Greenwood. whom, the
officers here are prone to believe, is
mentally unbalanced. Justice Crutch-
field, forced to believe that no one
but a crazy man would commit the
offenses Logan Greenwood is charged
with, placed him under security In
the sum of $500 for twelve months.
In the meantime il Is probable that
his mental condition will be exam
ined into.
From King and Queen.
Two months ago Greenwood brought
Il; Hfev% fr~nv
near Powcan in King and Queen coun-
ty where Mrs, Greenwood Said most
OF the brutal treatment was occurred
They have been boarding at the home
of Mrs. George Bew. 16 Louisiana
street, Fulton, since being here and
Greenwood has worked In the boiler
shop Of the Locomotive Works.
Il persuaded my huband TO come "a
the city because / thought | could get
some protection here" said Mrs Green
wood. The officers In King and Queen
county were afraid of Mr.. Greenwood
ard would not arrest him when he
beat me. Last year when We were
threshlng wheat at home he came to
the house In the afternoon ana found
me alone. He started to curse and
abuse me and when l replied to him
l4e- 81 With plank I va >
unconscious for four hours. He pour
ed water over me while I was on the
floor aid beat my little child until Ter
FACE was blue.
II went TO my mothers home and
he came after me, tied my feet and
hands with a rope and hauled me to
his house. Then he chained me To
the floor and took a horse whip aad
cut the blood out OF me. / have the
scars two inches long on my back nj
this time. After he had stripped ne
OF my clothes and finished whipping
me he put lot of salt in water and
with a towel washed the blood away.
eesIld not move, for he had me tight
l., tied to the bed and an iron pin drv-
en- in the hearth, He had two locks
en- the chains that were around me-.
Gave Her laudanur.
son nighl he found IA vial of laCda-
mum and tied me and held my nose
until opened my mouth and he made
ME drink lot of 1t. | went to sleep
and came near dying, My little child
was born shortly afterwards I will
become mother again in a few moths
and lie has simply killed me. l can
not stand it any longer and l COM
pla,ned to the policeman, Mr.. TAFT"
Patroiman w. G. TAFT was notified
of the cruel treatment and upon the
inforamtion he had received swore
out warrant for te mans arrest.
charging him with being disorderly,
slapping his wife and beating his lit
tie child. The little girl, Mabel. four
years of age, was In court with its
mother, The cheeks of the little one
were swollen where they are said to
nave been violently slapped by the
father. Commonwealth's Attorney
Minitree Folkes came near the judges
stand when the woman told her pitiful
story with all of it's narrowing "details
But the cruelty she told OF happened
in King and Queen county out OF
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