Show WARD REWARDED > t The WileBeater States His Case and is asked for 835 Joseph H Ward school teacher i theTwentyfirst Ward a resident of the I Eleventh and an individual who might be expected to have better control of his temper than he has several times manifested I mani-fested came before the Police Court yesterday on a charge of beating his I wile and his motherinlaw Mf Wardt a very prett Danishgirl testified that she had been married five months that her husband came home on Thanksgiving Thanks-giving Day found fault with the cooking cook-ing of the meat and when she denied his aspersions he knocked her down twice the motherinlaw in coming in to the room to hplp her daughter was also struck by Ward the only I evidence introduced on his side was that of hiniself to the effect I that he was afraid of a case knife in his motherinlaws hand and that 1 of two neighbors who saw Mrs i Ward pulling her husbands whiskers 1 and calling him a brute after the assault had occurred Judge Speirs considered 11 con-sidered that the case had been established I estab-lished and in a ter e lecture to Ward upon the cowardice of striking his girl wife whom he had so recently sworn to I love and protect he fined h fm 25 for this offense and 10 for assaulting his motherinlaw the difference in the amount was ot due to the fact thatthe Judge considered the second charge of le > enormity but because ithad not been so fully sustained as the first |