Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 19 | Wife-Beater Given Sentence in Jail |

Type	issue
Date	1916-12-24
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Wife-Beater Given Sentence in Jail
Type	article
Date	1916-12-24
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	19
OCR Text	Show WIFE-BEATER GIVEN SENTENCE IN JAIL Yesterday when giving Robert Walsh a sentence of six months' imprisonment in the county jail for wife-beating. Brigham Clegg, justice of the peace, expressed regret re-gret that the state law would hot permit a whipping-post sentence. The defendant was excoriated by fhe court, told that a jaii sentence was an over-mild punishment for the offrnse of which he was found guilty, and was Informed In-formed that the court was sorry it could not inflict punishment for perjury. Mrs. Elizabeth Walsh, the wife, was In court with a face swollen and discolored from blows alleged to have been administered adminis-tered by her husband's fists. Walsh returned to his home in Sandy, according to the testimony of his wife, early Thursday morning intoxicated and gave her a severe beating.
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