The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-28
|POUSE THREATENS
LIFE She CLAIMS
Nn. Henry Sanders, Wife Of Hotel
Keeper Filed TWO Informatlons
Against Husband for AS
sauIt and Battery.
LTERCATIoN IN HOTEL.
|bsr Of the Room, In Which the San.
dsrs Have Been Making Home,
Beaten In by Wife and
Defendant Resents.

ohm
Leading off with suit for divorce.
men seasoning the intervening space
am between the petition and the time
hat such separation can be granted
w the courts, with assault and battery
am the wife battering down the barricad
cd door OF the living room in their
totel apartments, promises to make
pm q legal episode In the courts that
promises to be spicy and enlivening.
pm At FIVE o'clock yesterday evening,
pm he police officers were notified of at
tempted assault and battery on the
person OF his wife, by Henry Sanders,
am proprietor and manager OF the Grand
Hotel, in this city. Going to the hos
pm telry AN officer found the door of
pm room number ten that has been oc-
cupied up until last evening by Mr.
pm and Mrs. Henry Sanders and children
am as living apartments, battered in, the
panel OF the same being splintered
With an instrument in the hands OF
pm Mrs. Sanders that would have done
excellent service as a battering ram.
Alter getting her hand through the
=, - door, 1t is claimed by the wife that
~ her husband assaulted and made
threats to kill her If she entered the
M family apartments.
nm nformations Filed in the Court.
nm shortly after the rumpus between
Mr. and Mrs. Sanders at the hotel
am last evening, Mrs. Sanders filed two
NOMINATIONS in the court of Justice
las. 5. Burrows, one charging the de-
ennant, her husband, with wiIfully
. anlawfully and maliciously making an
assault on the person of Alice Sanders
py threatening to strike and attempl-
ing to strike this said Alice Sanders
and by striking and beating her with
fst and board and then and there
In the hands Of Henry Sanders.
az The second information was one in
q sdich the plaintiff set forth in a state
a., nent that the defendant had threaten
nm to kill her and that she believed
me defendant would carry the threat
INTO execution unless prevented.
anil How the Trouble Started.
This last trouble, the real instiga-
ton for the fling of the two informa-
Fl tons against her husband by Mrs.
Sanders, came about late yesterday
afternoon Mrs. Sanders on going to
:. the apartments where she and her
:. husband and their children had been
-. making their living rooms in the
- hotel, found the door locked and San
Am dsrs refused her admission, she states,
nm when she asked for it.
nm Then 1t Is presumed and came out
nm this morning at the hearing, that the
nm Plaintiff secured. a board, six or eight
um ieet long and proceeded to batter in
ON lne door OF the room. The door had
ON been nailed shut and barricaded.
Attorney F. T. Hughes, who was in
inc hotel at the time, summoned Mr..
,es Baiiinger, attorney for the defense,
TX With Mr.. Hughes, in the assault and
I'M battery case of today, and Mr.. Bal
In lnger In turn called Police Officer
IN wilson into the hotel where the door
IN aad been broken in. Sanders asked
in mat the police officer remain there
I'm % protect him from his wife, though
,m her health is impaired according to
I'm her physician.
I'M This Mornings Hearing.
' 'm at 10 o'clock this morning in the
~ court of Justice Burrows, testimony
was heard and the several witnesses
brought to the stand to testify re-
sarding the case involving SO much
= amily disquietude. Until almost IL
4 o'clock the witnesses told their stories
y y answer to the attorneys quizzing
; .ae session was then adjourned until
d o'clock this afternoon
ihose witnesses on the stand this
morning were the following, with their
several testimonies, given below
Or. NJ. Machii1.
Inc testimony OF Dr. NJ. Machin tc
" ue used in the case of the state VS.
" nenry Sanders, was as follows:
am acquainted with Mrs San
~ aers and have attended her as a ply
'iclah know in way her health
sohdition. She is In an enfeebled ant
uefvous condition and ought to have
- medical attention every day or so.
On cress examination, the witness
,esuted: II have known Mrs. San
uefs for about two years think II
asr condition she could pick up slat
ok or eight feet long, and beat in 6
- poor ! have never seen her in q