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Show WEAK WIFE ROTES . HER BRUTAL HUSBAND I.IPKRTY. Ho.. - Aug. s. -After twice repule'ng his hysterical pleas to Intercede In his behalf. Mrs. May Choaf threw I her arms around her husband's neck when the court hound him over and. jrmmlslng him that she would do all In her power in obtain his tLeae on bond and acquittal acquit-tal when his trisl comas up. 1 will never test if v against him. she cried out tn the court. "Itis true, he wss cruel to me. but he le the father of my children, and I wilt never help to (send him to the penitentiary. You might as well turn him out now, for I will never helo convict him. even If I have to i go snd hide In the woods." v i Before a large crowd, two -thirds of (which was made up of women, fafsvette Choat. the farmer who te sen send of tying his wife's hands behind her and 1 forcing her to ws'k w.th his mules while I he harrowed hl fe'ds, waa given a pre- limine ry hearing hew toiler, i Mrs. Ovoat bared her arms and showed ;the Judsa the bruises which) she declared her hupoand hsd put there by beat ins ! her with a club, frlte said her husband i Had knoeked her dwn and. after tying her hands, made her msrch wttb the moles wh le he harrowed sis times arm ml a large Aeid. Khe said be woaid rcod her with a stick wiien fhe hesitated. Tha - tiro Choat children pTayrd around th fudge's desk a t heir nether rave testimony. Th huehand. who can neither read nor write, ected as his own attorney and questioned bis rife. He was be id for tbe gra..d Jury in $2vM bonds. |