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Show KEPT OLD HUSBAND CHAINED IN A BARN Then Sirs. Seers' Hired Man Covered Cov-ered the Farmer's Face "With , . Green Paint. ' WASHINGTON, N. J., Jan. 19.-Ac-cused of Inhuman treatment of her husband, hus-band, Mrs. Susan Beers, wife of John Beers, has been arraigned here : before Judge Shipman. With Elijah Beers, a son, and Frank Gordon, a farm hand, it is asserted that for three months Mrs. Beers, who Is 20 years younger than her husband, who is GO, practiced such cruelty on him that he almost died from his injuries. One of the charges is that they chained Beers In an old barn and left him for several days. While Beers was chained, Gordon admitted having covered the farmer's face with green paint. Beers la now being cared for by sons in Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. I |