The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-23
Tucker Horseyhipped by
Wife Upon Market Street
Woman Charges Her Husband
With Applying UnprintabIe
Epithets to Her.
BOTH ARE ARRESTED
sensational Scene Is Staged
in Front of the Fine
Arts Theater.

Ill ArCS IneaCeT.
HI Walter G. Tucker, under bond in
Ionnection with the death of billie"
III rawford, was this morning "horse-
Ehipped" by his wife, Mrs. Gladys
III ucker. when the two met on Mar
He street about noon near the Fine
hrts theater.
III According to Mrs. fuckers state
sAbent to a reporter at the police sta
Hon, she whipped him because she
Resented remarks made by Tucke,
l3very time he saw her on the street
n he said this had happened a num-
pler of times and that she had bough
lne whip several days ago for thu
Express purpose of giving him mos
hvere beating should he ever max
Me same remark again.
III She was arrested by Policeman Joc
chambers and brought to police
4 headquarters and charged with dis
lIderly conduct and assault. A score
M eyewitnesses to the incident ac-
\ lpmpanied Mrs. Tucker to Jail and
Nfered to make her bond. She was
Hleased when a bond for $500 was
Hgned by Ollie Yarnel and Lon D.
orsham, and the case will come up
Hfore Judge Martin A. Fleming Fri
YHiy morning.
\ Tucker followed his wife to police
4 headquarters, and on instructions of
lHhief w. l.. Baker was arrested by
fbrgt. Cummings and also charged
Hith disorderly conduct. He had not
Hade bond at . o'clock, but was
taking an effort to get hold of at
frneys and others at that time.
|A Mrs. Tucker Talks.
III was walking down the street
Ne said, in a statement to reporter,
Near the Fine Arts theater, and
lhcker and his father were standing
n the street talking, together with
bme other people. AS | passed |
/ Hard him call me names. He called
Ne a - low down - the
me as he has called me other times
lib the street, and / walked into a
Narby store and laid down some
Nlndles l had. l got out my whip,
lbich l bought two days ago. l
hught this to whip him with tho
|$ry next time he said those things
bout me. l walked up to him and
|ilruck him across the face. He
lAImped behind his father, who took
FiIe whip from me. Some people then
|aEerfered. He had annoyed me over
ale telephone; called me up any num-
|sIr of times, and has sent me vulgar
\ .lrds through the mail His father
Threatened this morning to hit me-"
|llMrs. Tucker was crying when
|llought to the police station and
|lbced in the" office of Mrs. Rachael
|Hrshall, police matron. fuckers
lither, ]. ID. Tucker. appeared at the
|tIor once while she was there and
Hide an effort to enter, according to
Hrs. Marshall, with the intention of
Hiking her. He was taken away by
Esblice Sergeant Cummings.
|HI Tucker Denies.
!sETucker appeared very much eX-
|sled over the incident at the police
vi ton. He said that his wife's charges
Wht he had called her vile names anS
ihlled her on the phone and sent her
Ialgar cards were untrue.
HEIt is a frame-up." he said, "just
Ie she framed up on me in the Billie
Elawford case. 4 woman like her
FlIl say anything; she has no char
Hitter. Didn't she leave her two chill
1 Fihn and go to the Eastern hotel to
IIe? How are you going to believe
Elwoman like that? | didn't know
H. was coming down the street today
EItil she walked up to me and struck
Mn. Fifteen or sixteen people saw her
III it. Her reputation has been once
III court and it's no trouble to prove 1t
|slain. There is absolutely nothing to
b. statement that l called her names.
sat is nothing but a lie."
HiIThe incident created considerable
R,ritement downtown and a number
came to police headquarters.
iiNcral people present said they be-
ElNed Mrs. fuckers story and prom
4 Ella her whatever assistance they
hid give.
F4bt is understood that federal au-
will investigate charges
Hide by Mrs. Tucker against her
lsband of sending obscene literature
klofCh the mail.
Piled Whip With Vim.
IA bvstander who witnessed the af-
tEv stated that Mrs. Tucker Ger
|lnlv gave her husband a whipping
flth telling effect. According to the
Tucker had previously been
/ king to a young lady and had been
his wife to her as she stated
sIs been his daily custom since their
4 -orce case. The young lady hap
ned to be friend of Mrs. Tucker,
d she Immediately went into the
bre where Mrs. Tucker worked and
d her. The young wife, chatting
der the abuse heaped upon her by
+ husband, secured horse whip
a went to the place where he was
tnding and gave him a good thrash
F'You are the most jealous woman
aver saw" said Tucker, to which
wife remarked:
like to know who would be
llous of a brute like you. I just
Hint you to. stop going about town
rsing and abusing me-
|ifucker then remarked: "a good
Imam is the best thing in the world, |
h a bad woman is the worst"
ht this juncture a man took hand
III collared Tucker and told him if
opened his mouth he would mash |
Hin.
then walked away and !
a policeman and had his wife |
Tested.
Fhe men in the crowd who had en-
led the whipping followed the Off
and Mrs. Tucker to the police |
n lton, and all of them offered to |
\ In her bond.
4 h'he affair created a great deal of
4 Hing and excitement. 1t was stated !
.lt recently an officer was forced !
call fuckers hand in the Read |
Lse cigar stand, where he was
Using and abusing his wife's name |
reputation.
| Fucker first came into the lime
ht when his wife some months ago /
I'd him for a divorce and he came |
Zlk in spicy cross-bill and |
v hrged his wife with inf1delity. The |
orce suit was a hotly contested
and at the conclusion Chancellor |
irwin held that both Tucker and !
wife were guilty of the charges
htained in the bill. but refused to
Mt q diNnrce I-ndnr the law the |