The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-25
P|XLEy SUES FOR
$1,000 DAMAGES
All Used Up as Result of
Horsewhipping by
Mrs. Bullock
LATTER SAYS SHE
WAS EXASPERATED
Says Whip Was Too Light to Do Any
Damage-Denies She Threatened to
Return with Rawhide-Stock on
Guilford Farm Under Attachment.

Damages of 1000 are sought by
George II. Pixley of Brattleboro in a
-ciyil suit brought this morning against
Mrs Mary c. Bullock Of Guilford as
the result of horsewhipping which
she administered TO him in the yard
at George b. White S livery stable last
Saturday afternoon. The suit is for al
legged assault and battery and is re-
turnable at the April term of the Wind
ham county cours, but the time is so
short that it probably will not he tried
then.
The suit was brought through the
law office of Barber, Barber & Miller
and the papers were served this morn
ing, Sheriff Frank l.. Wellman placing
an attachment on 16 COWS, 10 two-vear-
cid heifers, one bull, and three horses.
| Mrs Bullock is the widow of Walter
| Bullock and lives with her children on
their farm in Guilford. She is robust
woman. while Pixley is of small sta
ture. He is employed in Whites sta
BILE
Pixley claims that last Saturday aft
ernoon Mrs. Bullock horsewhipped him
and that as a result he was wounded
and bruised and became sick and has
been so ever since. that he suffered a
nervous shock and has been prevented
| from attending 10 his necessary duties
/ and business affairs and has been forced
TO lay out a large sum, $50, for medi-
cal attention and will be obliged TO
spend more for the same purpose.
/ The trouble arose over some wood
which Mrs Bullock sold to Pixlev a
year or so ago and for which she claims
there is due a balance of So, which
she says she has been unable to collect
although she has asked for it repeat
edlv
"He viii havesconsid derable to do,
| Mrs. Bullock said to member of The
Reformer staff today, ito prove all
the things he mentions in the writ.
She said the whip she used was light
50-cent affair with a broken end where
/, it had been run over.
Pixley claims that bystanders heard
Mrs. Bullock say, after the horsewhip
ping, that if he didn t pay her by the
end of this week she would come bach
: with a rawhide. 81 didn't say that,
Mrs. Bullock declared when inquired of
and added, :" If | had been planning tC
give him horsewhipping | should have
: Bought a heavier whip. as the one
{ used was too light to do any damag,
{ with
Mrs Bullock said that Pixley put VI
a hard luck story to her son, who at
!. tends school here and leaves his team
q at White S stable, as a result of whicl
she sent him q load of dry wood, whicl
was all she had. She says she wa
u obliged, on thaS account, to burn greer
> wood all winter. Pixley paid So sh
( said, but repeatedly refused to pay tn
! balance.
4 week ago last Monday, Mrs. Bul
lock saws. she came here and had a
argument with Pixley, but he elaine,
: to be unable to pay, and Saturday sh
+, called on him again. leaving her hors
+" in front of the Richardson meat MAJ
l1et on Elliot street Pixley still elaine
: to be unable to pay, hut Mrs. Bulloc
says he told her he would pay her
she H'hadn t been saucv last Monday
Mrs. Bullock allowed that if that wa
t, the reason why he didn I pay il WASH
at because he didn t have the money, an
d. she thereupon Informed him that Il
could either pay or take licking.
h This conversation took place ou
,r doors, and when Mrs. Bullock starte
" for her carriage Pixley hot-footed
h into the barn and went into a stal
Mrs. Bullock found him there, in Il
- back part of the barn, and he the
d went into the yard beside. the bar
Mrs. Bullock following.
! She says she asked him there if
: would pay and he said he couldn t l.
!, T. cause he must pay his rent. This 81
~ ~ said didn't appeal to her after wal
-, ing year and she told him so, but
. other words Then he said he would p;
ay