Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-16 | Page 9 | Says She Was Jabbed with a Hatpin "from the Rear"

I SAYS SHE WAS JABBED WITH : I; A HATPSN "EROM THE REAR" j What provocation and extenuation for assault and battery upon the Jabber does jabbing ono from tho rear with a hatpin offer the Jabbec? This point camo up for consideration In Judge IJiehl's court Wednesday morning, In the case of Mrs. Pansy Street, a buxom lass with a coarse voice, charged with assault as-sault and battery upon Mrs. Margaret Mlsell, elderly and severe. Although Mrs. Streut did not see, tho point of the hatpin hat-pin she felt It, sho declared, so many times that she wont to the trouble of Itemizing the number. The feminine weapon of warfare was thrust Into hor "from tho rear" 11" times, she tost I lied. Tho onc-hundred-and-Iwelfth Jab aroused her slumbering angr, apparently, and sho placed Iho Jabber hors de combat with a mighty blow to the face. Miss Elizabeth Ulaek. a clerk, who was a spectator of the affray, blushlngly testified, tes-tified, however, that she saw no hatpin Jabbed Into Mrs. Street "from the rear." and that If one was jabbed inlo her she made no demonstration. The testimony of other witnesses also discredited the hatpin hat-pin story to such an extent that tho court disregarded It and tlnnd the young woman wom-an who insisted that she was at the receiving re-ceiving end of the feminine, weapon ,11 limes $15. Mrs. Street, through her counsel. coun-sel. Cyrus D. Cutrell. Hied notice of appeal ap-peal and a stay of execution was granted for live days. The trouble occurred in the People's Cash store. First South and Richards street. April 2i. Mrs. Streut. and Mrs. MIsull's daughter, several weeks previously, previous-ly, traded linger rings and Mrs. Mleel) desired de-sired that they exchange hack. To this end sho approached Mro. Street and the ! affray followed. In police court Wodnes- I day morning Mrs. Street declared that ! Mrs. Mlsell followed her and her mother. ' Mrs. Jane Street, up and down tho store. . Jabbing the hatpin into them "from the rear," but other witnesses said that Mrs. I Mlsell. Instead of jabbing a hatpin Into t Mrs. Street and her mother, flaunted a , newspaper In their faces. The case came up In Judge Dlohl's court soon after tho trouble, but is was learned that Airs. Street was under age j and It was sent to the Juvenile court. . There It was discovered that sho is mar- ried. giving the police court jurisdiction j despite the defendant's youthful age. and 1 the case was tired back to Judge Dlehl. '