| Show IUD fEUD GETS GElS j jAN AN AIRING IN POLICE OLIC COURT The T r f feud was wa fought to a finish before re Judge Timmony yes yesterday ye yesterday afternoon and everybody around headquarters was relieved of great geat mental anguish angish thereat th reat The case is a famous one having its origin orgin as far back as a It a week ago last Friday On that day it was wa alleged Mrs Agnes Eckess living in a terrace on South Temple near Fifth West street ad administered admInistered administered ministered corporal punishment upon the person of little Victor Turner son of A A L L I Turner a railroad man by means meas of the business end of a horse horsewhip horsewhip whip The ladys lad s excuse was that little Vic Victor Vic Victor Victor tor had taken an extensive fall faI out o of little Willie Vile Mrs Eckess boy and little Willies sister The riot among the children was the cause cuse of i it at any rate though stories storIe were conflicting in detail So the case cae after ater a dozen post postponements postponements postponements came on for hearing The firm f of Booth Boot Lee Gray ap appeared appeared for the defense and Diehl Bin Bis Bismarck Bi marck march and Christopher held down the tha Interests the defendant ant in the te end being fined 5 and newspaper noto notoriety notoriety notoriety It was wa agreed first that the case ce should be submitted on a statement of facts fact but when Mrs rs Eckess made made her statement which was not unlike one of Laura Jean effusions the prosecution insisted upon being heard and the result resul was an allday alday trial t feature of which was wa that tat no witnesses were sworn It I was considered consid red dangerous to swear them We live lve alone exclaimed Mrs Eckess tragically my two children and myself There is no husband to t protect us and in the five weeks week we W have been there my life has ha been ten lives beyond human endurance on ac account account account count of these Turner boys They The are seldom seen without rocks rock in their hands and my boy Willie VUle is pummeled by them on every occasion The Te girl on the day day in m question wag w W com coming c lug ing ig home from school when she saw o othe the Turners Turnes beating her brother They turned on her at a word and 8 hearing heing her cries cres and shrieks shriek I seized sIzed the horse horsewhip hors whip and rushed upon them the and slash slashed td ed Ud one of them I 1 did This was the te most mot important testimony tl mony but the prosecution put on little George Gorge Ericson who skI said 81 that when he arrived the Eckess girl w wl ws s whaling gr Victor proper Mr Morgan Morgn also was ws near ne the Scene He saw the whip descend like Ike a aloud upon Victors back bk and ad heard hed the te de defendant defendant defendant exclaim You will wU will wi you youA youA youA A Mrs Mr Ericson said she saw sw a little of it i and ad in a a little less lees les than twenty minutes mInute time related reat d what she Bhe sw ew swA ewA We WeA A Mrs Wrath saw sw the oy y r hit Ag Agnes A Agnes nes on the wrist and say SIY tie he was w onto ont her herA he A Mrs Carrel Carrol Crl was far from the madding crowd but knew the te EckeSs girls face was swollen that evening and A few others were examined when all an had finished the te court dourt durt talked tak It I Is unfortunate that this case c should come into court curt he said among other things you ought all aU to move out of the neighborhood I be believe b believe lieve leve Mrs rs Eckess Ecke could have satisfied the ends erds of justice by sippIng shipping s the boy boyon by byon on the pistol pitol pocket It I was wa hardly necessary to use u the horse hor whip But there ther is considerable punishment at attached attached attached to your coming up here When Wen you see s the morning mornin papers pp you yu will wi all aU be sorry I believe for the te reporters have not stopped stopp writing since the tho ewe cane ce began I will wH take this thin ti into int consideration I tion in passing sentence ton Mrs rs Eckess was wa then fined a V Vand Vand Vand and after the neighborhood had ha held a a brief reception In the judges jud chamber little Victor being bing paid pi innumerable compliments pro and con but mostly moly to dinner con the court went |
