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Show KNOCKS D01 WIFE WITH BLOW OF FIST Husband Is Held in Jail'; Woman Wo-man Taken to I (ospital in Critical Condition. William Newberry, an ironworker, 37 pr?. of age, residing al South stale 1 1 reel occupies eel in the city jail, bring held on un open charge, -while his wife ia at the L. D. 8. hospital, hos-pital, paid to be tn a critical condition. Recording to the woman'? statement, dewberry struck her a severe blow with his list. The surgeons tear thai a bone in her neek is broken. (Vn X-ra,v examination will be made today and an operation performed iL' necessary. neces-sary. Mrs. Newberry to, the police 0i-cors 0i-cors that Bhe wa.; rendered unconscious by the blow and has no clear recoiled-tion recoiled-tion of what followed. Patrolmen Oil lepie and I.von were summoned an 1 took Newberry '"to custody. He refused re-fused to make any statement, but, Mrs. Newberry said her husband struck her when she asked for money, hc was penniless and without fond for herself ami her I year old babe, she declared. When Newberry was. searched at the station; $4.80 was found in his pockets. The polico at once sent the entire amount to Mrs. Newberry, A physician who was ealled in rec-ommended rec-ommended that Ihe woman br taken to a hospital .Hid ?he was conveyed to the L. I . 8. institution. The charge to he made against Newberry will await tin-outcome tin-outcome of the woman 'a injuries. |