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Show HEARTLESS HUSBAHO TAKEN WTO CUSTODV Goes Home Drunk and Beats Wife: Also Terrorizes Neighborhood. "Why, all I want a. wife for is to keep my house and cook my incals when I want her to." heartlessly declared Pete Council, a plasterer, (3 Snarr's court, when arrested Friday night on a charge of mistreating his wife. And then ho laughed. It was well that the police took Council Cou-ncil when thej' did, for tho mau's angry neighbors were about to lake matters into their own hands when the patrol wngou arrived with Patrolmen ll.. P. Lyon and .1. K. Ilinton. Angered by Conncll's attack upon Mrs, Conncll, they were discussing seriously the organization organiza-tion of a whitccapping' brigade when tho policemen took Connell from hia house to the city jail. Conncll, it is 'alleged, has scandalized Snarr's court not only by his attack on his wife, but the manner in which he did ir. Clad only in an undershirt, he had rushed, cursing and reviling, into the yard in front of the court, and had hurled himself upon Mrs. Council. Women who were taking the evening air on their front stoops fled within doors in terror. Men, angered to white heat, yet hesitating to mix in the family troubles of auofcher, gathered in knots and breathed vengeance. Tt remained for May Thomas, jri-ycar-old daughter of Mrs. Conncll, to bring the police on the run. At work in a neighbor's house tending tend-ing a baby, she wns told by a playmate that her mother was being choked by her stepfather. Frantic with fear the little girl sped to Snarr's court, took one look at her mother struggling wilh the half-clad man, then rushed to the nearest near-est telephone. Though her voice was so choked with sobs that, she could barely speak, the little girl told Desk Sergeant Spears what, was going on. lie sent the wagon out at top speed. When the police arrived thev found Connell. still only partially clad, holding hold-ing his u'-montli-old babe, while his wife Avcni cringingly about getting his supper, ITe greeted the policemsn with a Joiid guffaw. Mrs. Connell told (he police thai. Conncll Con-ncll had come home drunk and mad. and had gone to bed just when supper was ready. She Iried to awaken him. but in vain, she said. Then, when he did awake, she said that he demanded his meal instanter. Because she did not have it. ready he drove her iulo the yard and bent her. "Well, ain't that what a wife is for?" demanded Connell. "to cook his meals when he tells her to?" |