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Show If! S!SflSlFE j, Hair-Pulling, Slapping and Kicking Parts of Fierce Family Row. PRICE OF EGGS OFFSETS ' WORK OF SEAMSTRESS I.. Judge Dielil Throws Up Jlisj Hands and Finally Says ) i "Discharged." j i It. was son against mother in .ludec j ! iehl's court Thursday afternoon in I the case of Mrs. -Isidore Salin, charged ' -with battery upon Mrs. Hannah Salin. 1," Iter mother-in-law. The son painted N t.ho mother in no plowing oolors, and Ji his testimony, set with that of his wife I, ngnins-t that, of his aged mother and ( older brother, balanced the case, and -the defendant was found not guilty and discharged. The Salins, a host of them, live on Capiiol hill, n Mrs. Hannah Salin. the complainant. H wis the first witness. She said that while she was standing outside her J. son's vard talking to him. Monday, tho i defendant camo out of tho house and IS injected herself into the conversation. U According to tho mother-in-law. the P dauHiter-in-law told her she owed her y for dewing, and then reached oyer l ie yard fence and struck her in tho iJJ mouth. ,. . , , i m Ellis Salin, Mrs. Salin s elderly Mm, W paid that from his yard, almost a block Ltf nn-nv- im the daughter-in-law IC' rea fill over the fence and strike nis 1 U jnolhe,r in the mouth. I (tf "Tall, Dark Woman." h Tho daughter-in-law. a tall, dark i f woman, who conducted her own case. , ihnn dramatically told her side of the .-nTair. She said that despite the fact that she altered a skirt for her mothi-r- t in-law, sewed for her children and made two skirts for two of her sistcrs-in- I law, the complainant insisted that I. voung Mrs. Salin and her husband owed l: f ior for eTgs. She also accused her I mother-in-law of making kindling wood I' out of her clothes stick and other sum- I Jar pottv but. aggravating offenses. I She vigorously ami dramatically dc- I jiiod striking her mother-in-law. but as- I sorted that, she had urged her to be I reasonable, and charged the complain- I ant with calling her vile names and I finallv grjibbing her by the hair and I arms' so viciously that the latter wore I severely bruised. She exhibited black I and blue marks upon her wrists which, 1 tho charged, were made by her mother- I in-law 's violence. I" Trios to Collect Bill. I Then came the defendant's husband. I Ho Faid that while ho was watering the lawn at hifc home his mother np- i proached and followed up an old at tempt, to collect $40 from him lor 1 boarding him when he was only 10 . years old. She also abused his wife. N 'classifying her as a low woman, and when "Hie latter started back to the house, after listening to his mother s harangue ami abuse of her. the complainant com-plainant jumped the fence and grabbed his wifc'bv rho hair of the head. He pulled her away and forced her from tin; vard. but he ejected her the second time before she desisted. Then he kicked her hat, which had fallen t oh' in the fracas, over the fence into ! the street, he. said. I i Both Assistant City Attorney Edgar H A. .Kogcrs and' the court deplored the I fainilv row, and Judge Dichl snid it fj proba'blv was true that both sides ought to lie- punished for fighting. Prom the testimony it was difficult to determine ; -the case', he said, and discharged the i defendant. |