The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-22
WIFE WHO BEAT
SIREN SAYS SHE
HAS THAT RIGHT
Married Woman Is Justified in
Defending Home Even With
Cowhide, Her View.

woman would take a fortune in
jewels than my husbands love.
They can all have taste of the
cowhide, if they want it"
Thus did pretty Mrs. Charles w.
Townsley, of New York, bride Of
nine months, reflect today in her
luxuriously furnished apartment in
the Marlborough, GIT Eighteenth
street northwest, after publicly,
chastising a young woman in a
corridor of the Munsey building
Monday afternoon.
Further than to admit that her
family -esides in New York and that
she and her husband had an apart
ment there after their marriage last
June, until coming to Washington
this past winter, Mrs. Townsley
sought to cloak her own identity.
I'D rather not bring my family
into this, not now at least" she said,
MY grandmother is seriously Ill,
and I am afraid the shock of pub
licity would do her harm"
Further questioning, however,
brought the admission that her hus-
band formerly was employed as a
salesman by the All-American Truck
Company, Hartman Bank building,
527 Fifth avenue, and later as an
advertising man on a New York
newspaper.
The marriage Of the Townships,
the wife said, took place on the
evening Of June s, 1921, at the home
of Rev. Mr.. Otterson, Central Park.
West.
But she denied It was an elope-
ment, stating she had known her
husband eighteen months before the
marriage, and that they had been
engaged for some time.
Townsley at present is said to be
in Grand Rapids. Mich, the home Of
flee of the concern for which he is
now travelling out of Washington.
His mother, Mrs. Lolita Townsley.
lives In Chicago.
Townsley, according to letters
displayed by his wife, was a cap
tain of ordnance during the war and
for some time following the war,
though he became involved in
charges that brought about his ar
rest and detention at Governors
island. A letter, signed by Lieut..
e. B. Low, Ordnance Department,
Washington, and dated January %,
1919, referred to Capt. Charles w.
Townsley, who Is at the present
time under arrest at Governors
Island"
Another letter, bearing the sig
nature Of DIR. Walter r. Metz, as
sistant surgeon, United states navy,
New Orleans, and dated December
20, 1917, revealed that Townsley
some years previously had plarried
DR.. MetZ's sister, Miss Amelia
Metz, and that he had forsaken her
and their one child.
According to her own statement,
Mrs. Townsley went to the Munsey
building Monday afternoon and held
II lengthy private conference with the
girl, in which the wife pleaded that
her husband be left alone.
Il offered to give her money and
buy her ticket 10 60 off somewhere
and start life anew" said Mrs.
TOwnsley today, but she spurned Il.
She admitted to me that she had
kissed my husband, gone to dinner
with him, and accepted money and
clothes from him."
The TOWNSHIPS came to Washing
ton in November. Mrs. Townsley said,
and resided at the New Willard Hotel
until March :, when they took the
Marlborough apartment, except for
bries intervals when her husband was
out of town OH business and she was
with her family in New York. ..
What the next step in this do.
nestle tangle will be remains for
time TO tell