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Show Wife-Beaters Get Pull Penalty. , NEW YORK. Oct. 4. Frank McDonald, convicted of benflng his wife, was today sentenced by the Court of 8peclal Sessions Ses-sions to one year at hard labor in the county penitentiary and to pay $500. the extreme penalty under the law. James Cumlsky. for knocking down his wife, wss sentenced to nlns months' Imprisonment. Imprison-ment. The court announced that hereafter here-after wlfe-beaters must expect the utmost ut-most punishment permitted by the law, and that Intoxication would not be accepted ac-cepted as a plea In mitigation. |