Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-09-07

assault of last July, had he not or
dered her with the three small chill
dren to leave home.
All that this woman has gone
through she alone knows and has pre-
ferred to bear her grief alone, no
doubt hoping there was some good,
some undiscovered spark of manhood
in this human which would assert
itself Fragmentary facts enough
have filtered from the little home to
brand Peter Mallick as cruel, heart
less fiend who was q source of con-
slant danger to his family and a
menace to society. When on July 2
Peter Mallick left Grangeville for the
home of his wife, he went with MUIR
der in his heart and fully intended to
kill the woman who had kept her
ever marriage vow, never once COM
planning to the public but dutiful to
the last, hoping against hope that he
was not what his ever action indicated.
Crime the Most Brutal Imaginable.
A brief recital of the last attack
is an index to this mans life.
Late in June, after Mallick had
ordered his wife and children, one
two and half years old and the
others twins of year of age, from the
ranch, he came to Grangeville and
arranged property matters. He told
Mrs. Mallick to return to the home,
which in the settlement was given
to her, and he would not bother her
but would leave the country. On
Sunday afternoon, July second, NAL
lick and jess Swan, white man, left
Grangeville for the ranch. Both had
been drinking, according to the story
told but witnesses can be procured
who will testify as to Mallick's con-
dition being otherwise.
The two arrived at the house near
shutdown, Mallick opening fire on the
house with Winchester. Mrs. NAL
lick was sitting in chair rocking her
twin babies to sleep when the first
intimation, bullet whistling by her
head, was given. He followed up
the shooting by breaking down the
door and numerically beating his wife,
using revolver, rifle and miners
pick. He dragged her from the
house by the hair and cut all the
clothing from her body with wicked
slashes of knife. AS she grew weak
from the loss of blood and fell in a
heap he picked her up. placed her on
the porch and knocked her to the
ground with the butt end of rifle.
AT one time during the assault he
struck at her head with a rifle, at
tempting to brain her as she was
drinking water. The blow missed her
head but broke the right collar bone.
lime after time he kicked her and
also used miners pick with telling
effect. The woman alone and de-
fenseless, the brute desisted only when
he thought the job was complete. He
waded through the house, where the
two babies and other little child were,
took a hand full of matches in his
bloodstained hands, and sought safety
in the brush. After he had gone, the
woman crawled on her hands and
knees to neighbours house and
tainted away after telling but briefly
her story. There were nine scalp
wounds, broken collar bone, two
broken ribs, finger almost torn off,
two teeth knocked out, the liver
torn from the abdominal walls and
not spot an inch square on her
bod yf<hat was not bruised and beaten.
IL to be wondered at that the
citizens of Idaho county refused to
allow the state board of pardons
another opportunity?
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