Year: 1874

Wife Beating as an Exereise-Schol-


lands COnfession-Bow His Wife Ag-


gravated Him TIL He Became Mad


Another Case the Same Night.


Valentine Schoand, who battered his wife's
head with club in Jersey CITY on Tuesday night,
was brought up Tor examination yesterday
before Justice Reese. He Is OF medium
slZe has black hair, Is twenty-eight years
OF age and is q harnessmaker by trade. His wife.
whose condition Is very precarious, is about twen
ty-lour years old. His demeanor during the pro-
ceedlngs was simply an exhibition of indifference.
He stared fercey at some OF the spectators as a
reproach Tor their glances OF curiosity. When
asked what he had to say in reply to the charge
Of attempted murder OF his wife he made the fol-
lowing statement


Ireside AT No. 232 Seventh street. My wife h as
tried to worry me TO death, told me often 10 get
out OF the house. and | couldn't endure 1t any
longer. was at the shop yesterday two O'Clock.
and she entered ana engaged to meet me at
Hoboken; we met and went up to the Schuetzen
Park: there was myself, my wife and one baby !;
Of Hoboken; when we were going up to the
Schuetzen Park she woud not sit by me in the car;
an unpleasant time; she wouldn't walk with me
unless put myself by her side, and then she
would walk behind me, so couidn't see her; she
made all the iool she could OF me, but she wasn't
cross; she tried to run away from me; the
1act Is she is ashamed OF me; that's shor.
when we got into the car to come home she
would not sit near me from HoboKen to Jersey
City; thought only had eight cents, and sne re-
fused to give me money to pay the fare although
she had money we had trouble IN going from the
car to the house; after We got in the house she
her to stop or / would do something ITO to
her; she said l dared not, because l was
i0 shs ran e the deor ans
caught her by the throat to stop her; stepped on
her dress and she fell down on the floor; tnen
happened to see the club you have there, and pick
ing 1t up struck her with IL: then l could not
control myself and struck her ten or twelve times;
John, our Oldest boy, got between us, and the SER
want girl ran out and cried a lot OF men then
came In; the offlcer was first in the room, but
don't believe he saw me strike her; don't believe
the servant saw me strike her; believe she was
there when nv wife fell over by the stove; don't
know what is the cause of the trouble between me
out Of the Country there is no cause for ieaiousv
one to give her cause for jealousy; once
to work; went also to New York State and
worked; then l went to Cleveland, because she
the children because couldn't bear to stay away
from them; when came back she said needn't
stay on her account, because she didn't want me;
then went or to Waterbury, Conn.,. and worked
when Counsellor Jackson. for her, sent me
got hm o sne Mnea is sn %
the house yet; came home in December last ana
have been home eyer since; my wlle has been in
good health, and don't know OF her having any
sickness; my family have lived in Jersey City
seven years; my wife owns the house we live in;
we have been married ten years; we own the lot,
"a by 100 feet, on the corner of Erie and Seventh
streets; the property was accumulated by my
Wlle, ner mother and myself, but there was no
trouble about the property whatever'


When he concluded this statement he hung his
head, and Tor the first time seemed overpowered
by remorse. He inquired about the condition Of
his wife, and when informed that she would prob
ably die he became excited. The examination
was adjourned to this morning. The weapon
used ny HIM was pine club, two feet
in length, an inch and half in diameter and two
pounds weight. 1t was broken during the ARRAY,
and patches of hair and cl0tted blood adhered to
1t. The wounds inflicted were of a fearful charac-
ter. The flesh on the right cheek was stripped to
the bone. The skull was fractured over the right
eye, and there was another ira cture the right
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