, 1924-10-09

until the visitors left. Several times
he put me in the cellar and put a
chain around my neck and would
put a paddock on the chain and
fasten me to the wall. He never
kept me very long this way"
Question: How do you account
for the beatings, does he drink or
is he merely brutal?"
mo, he never drinks, but is Just
brutal. He made me do all the
work on the homestead. One time
he kicked me when | was pregnant
and l lost the baby on account of the
kick. This happened about a year
ago"
Kings version of the trouble is as
follows:
well, we have had only a few
fights and it is a long story, almost
too long to tell. The trouble started
some time ago and usually over one
of our children. One of them holds
his breadth. did ever since he was
4 small baby. My wife used to whip
him and he would hold his breath
and he has to be babied instead of
w%hinped. That usually caused the
, fights. Then she never combed Der
hair or washed"
Question: Did you beat her with
a club?"
NO, that cut on her nose was
caused from being drug by a horse"
Question: What caused the
c%auliflower ears?"
81 hit her with my fists"
Question: What caused her arm
to be in the condition 1t isl"
We'll, she got that in bed, I
think she had a cramp in it. She
is an unruly wife and I think she
has had other relations. My life
has been in danger twice because
Of her accomplices. One time I
was shot in the back of the head by
one of her accomplices."
!. B. King is a slender man about
five feet nine or ten inches tall and
looks to be anything but brutal.
ings Of his wife are true, which
from all Indications can hardly be
doubted, the charge against him
will not give him punishment in pro-
portion to the seriousness Of his
crime. He is charged with agra
waited assault and battery. The law
reads: "If IN person shall unlaw-
fully and maliciously inlict upon
another person, either with or with
out any weapon or instrument. any
grievous bodily harm. or shall I'M
lawfully or maliciously cut. stab oil
wound any other person. the person
so offending shall be fined not more
than one thousand dollars. or con-
| fined in the county Jail not more
than one year. or both" Thus the
maximum sentence which can be
given King Is n $1,000 fine and one
year in Jail. II the fine is not paid
he must serve the fine out In jail
Mt one day for every dollar.
1t would seem that n jail sem
tencc Is not adequate for the crime
this man Is reported to- have ON
mitted. He has served W previous
terms in jail and II the reports are
true. It only served to make him
worse after he had been released.
There is no doubt but what both
n~rrties are to blame In n more or
loss decree. but there Is no excuse
for mis.reating n human person to
the extent that Mr.. King is alleged
tor have carried the matter. Tho
punishment for such n crime was
/ used years ago when the whipping
posts were In order: physical punish
mont to the offender carried its
meaning and obtained It's results.
There are many times when n good
| spanking carries more weight thar
any other kind OF punishment. but
when n man so brutally beats and
fortunes n woman there should be
some other punishment than merely
, iail sentence.
The Incident Of which King speaks
about in being shot In the head oc-
Cured in 1921 in this city while he
was ut his home. He was sitting IN
n chair when someone fred n bullet
J Through the window. the bullet
striking him in the back OF his head
II flattcncd out and wns easily re-
moved with an instrument.
when nsked X his wife should
sue for divorce II he would night tho
! divorce, he hesitatcd md stntcd that
no did not care what happened ms
long ms his children we're taken care
Of. II Ia believed that no is OF n
brutal. jealous nature and this was
the cause Of the man. nights.
Mrs. King stntes that she II VIII.
ing 20 prosecute him to tho full
| limit OF the law, but that she docs