Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-01
ASSA|LhNT BEATEN
BY "V|CT|M,," MUST
PAY 500 AND COSTS
Breaks Into Room. Couple Testify
and is Handled Roughly; Many
Non Support Cases.
JUDGE AIDS HUSBAND

Booze was blamed by Leonard Con
way for his arrest on the charge of assault
and battery on the person of Edward
Jones. . Conway entered City Court this
morning To face the accusation with his
left eye bruised and dlscolored and hlS
face a mass of small cuts. 1t developed
that he began the fray, but that Jones
finished it
Jones and his wife both testified that
when they left their apartment at I2
Market street last night, Conway was
lounging in the dark hallway. Tie OBJ
structed their passage, they SAID, and
when they attempted politely to get
round him, turned on them with oaths
and insults.
The couple said that later in the even
ing they came home, but because Con-
way was seated in the doorway with his
feet stretched over the pavement, Mrs.
Jones feared to enter the house. The
couple visited store closely and after %
time came back. They declared that
Conway was then in the parlor down
stairs, and that he demanded to know
what they wanted IN the house.
They went up the steps, with Conway
following them with threats and curses,
they said Before Mrs Jones could bolt
their door in Conway's face, she said, he
threw his weight against the door, burst
into the room and assaulted MIR. Jones
The latter testified that it was then that
he gave Conway all that was coming TO
him. and Conway's appearance certain
ly showed that he had accepted it
Other witnesses testified TO the bad
acting Of Conway, and the court fined
him $50 and costs with the alternative Of
three months IN the workhouse.
snff q fInYt
in court this morning. The NastIns
complicated troubles were thoroughly
aired when John W Mastln applied for
a reduction In the court order to pay
his wife Sl5 weekly for the support Of
herself and two small children
The father testified that the whole
trouble between himself and wife was due
to the attentions PAID 10 their daughter
by an alleged married man. He said that
he had found the man IN their home
several times AZ a very late hour. Re-
monstranccs with his wife were Of no avail.
he said
1t was shown also that while he was
the tenant Of their home on Monroe
street that the landlord had rented the
house to Mastn's daughter lie de-
clared that he was behind only one month
in the rent, and that this was q scheme
to keep him out Of the house and from
seeing his little daughters
Mrs Nlastin declared that She was in
bad health and unable to work She
said that Nastin had continually ill-treat-
ed her ever since their marriage She
said that he had not been kept ont Of lie
house except to prevent HIM from abusing
her She said that one of her daughters
was in the keeping Of a hrothcr-ln-law
and the other little girl was n home.
Judge Churchman told her she should
be able TO keep. both children at home
and not farm them out He ordered
that Mastin should pay her only s. per
week ther after.
James Skelly, a carpenter was ordered
by the court to pay his wife Nellie $40
a week. and on failure to do So to serve
three months in the workhousc. ~kcllv
testified that he had been giving his wife
upwards Of SIS per week except for the
past three weeks or So His wife de-
clared that she had received only S2l in
the past four weeks and that she faced
starvation She said she could no longer
get food from dealers She declared that
drinking by Skelly has caused all their
woe.
William Murphy. charged with violaf-
ing an order 70 the State Council of
Defense was released under $500 bail and
given the chance to 80 TO work He Is
10 report TO the court on the last Saturday
In November when it viii be determined
whether or not he has in the meantime
complied with the order