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Show BEATS WIFE DURING PRAYER. Had Her Hands In Dough, and Could iNot Join in Devotion. For whipping his wife because she failed to join in prayer, John Newdick was fined $40 in Mayor Brouse's court in Kokomo, Ind. Mrs. Newdick, who appeared in court with two black eyes, said she intended to join in worship, bat had her hands in the dough making mak-ing bread, and could not stop. She said her husband stopped in the middle of his extempore prayer, arose from his knees and beat her unmercifully, one of his blows knocking her down. Mrs. Newdick denied that she showed lack of devotionj, but explains that her- -household needed part of her attention and she never could tell at what moment mo-ment her husband might not suddenly insist on holding a prayer service in. we house. |