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Show A BRUTAL SCOUNDREL.. jV UK HEATS HIS WIFE AXD THE FACT BECOMES V Flies From His 1Iou.no aud KooNts all NiK'it M itli Hie Itiriln. i iirintc-U ' MincrirTar and FVulliers Tears and Iro-teslationN Iro-teslationN A Departure, Depart-ure, nnd I'robablc ICeconcilin t ion. Uur currei'Onetit a jUrV C:jj semis us the following : Dry C'anok, 8:'pt. 22, 1S73. I.KWIS UKN'UVVON' REtiMAXV. W ' Imve had -fUiteV art 'vi'cilin time here, consequent upon the at tempt of one Lewis Henry, a native of Germany, to beat his wife to death. On. last Monday, a Mrs. Faust was , informed by certain'parties, that they ; had reason to believe that Lewis had abused his wife so much, that she was Unable to got outof both Several of the women immediately vi.siicU the house, and upon -entering Uie-domU-cile ofsaid Lpwis pcrceivel that Mrs. Lewis was in a horrible condition.' UXCUQKEa HIS.l'ROU. . , The fiend" nr humitn shaped had choked her until her throat was black and so" much 'swollen that she could not speak to her visitors. They irumediately .-removed her toT.he:-re"-sifleuec of Mr-Faust, -and alter ;v eon--tinucd application of restoratives she so far recovered trom her exhaustion as to be enabled to tell ' 1 ; HER STOKY. For the past two years she lias been compelled to endure the most unheard un-heard of brutality from this brute, called a husband. Last Monday morning he tied ahnndkerchief across her mouth so iiglitly that "ahccoald not speak or scream, and then grasping grasp-ing her throat with one hand he beat her in the face and breast with the other, alternating his amusement by dragging her around the room by the hair, and kicking her in the side as she-liiy ou tho. floor. Tjia -stpi'y ao . - ENRAGE THE MINERS That they resolved to.' puiii'sh the inhuman in-human wretch; so, collecting themselves them-selves togetlicr, to the number .of seventy-live men, they supplied thchv-selves thchv-selves with a; ooii,of inch '. rope, a bucket bl" tar, and a sufficient quantity quan-tity of feathers.' Tliey now.sav?! tho necessity of . a lejidcr -aud. proceeded lo elect Mr. Frank' 'Jacobs' to fill the position. This want supplied they Eiegan to move upon5' the' ena-'my's ena-'my's position. . Arriving at tlie. house they found the. door .opeu,. "but the " : BIRD IT AD KLOX. r- j , The best half of the night was spent in searebjng (pr ih.2 wife beater, but without success. Placing a man -known as "Big Smith, "..as a watch at' the house,- tliQ .enraged .miners re-: tired to their'seyeral pla'cfes of a'bodc, breathing deep vows of vengeance in' case the object of their search should turnup on the-morrowr "Morning dawned, and some of the denizens of '.laonba Cityi discovered' ho objecii Of their midnight visitation perched'on, top of a large pine tree. Hewas quickly quick-ly interviewed, the aforeaaidrope etc., etc., being a prominent part of the programme. The poor, frightened, fright-ened, worn out, sleepy Dutchman had commenced -by-t'his time to see the folly of his ways, and between i TEARS AN'D 1'ROTESTATIOXS so workeil upoa . theJeelmgS; pf -liis jeSptora 'tht, Klpon his-pRnnwing to give all of his earthly possessions to his much abased wifej to furnish bei with a bill of divorce' as soon as possible, possi-ble, and leave the camp before night fall, they released him: nnd this afternoon after-noon he was seen wending his way. down the canon cheerless and alone. His wife book tho enjne directioQ ;eoon after; and there is a two to- one '"bet otlered in camp that they will be together to-gether in peace. !Uid.iuiot,uess before morning.' -1 ; - - '-'".Tosti.ne. ! |