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Show HE BEAT HER, HATCHET Recommending a divorce as the only way of unraveling a domestic entanglement unbound In Police court this morning, In the case of H. L. Salter, brick mason, charged by his wile with assault and battery, Judge J. D. Murphy allowed tho man to go on his own recognizance, ordeilng him to appear In court again Monday morning, when a final settlement will he effected. Mrs, Josephine Salter appeared in court against her husband and stated that thoy wore married on the 10th of last July. The honeymoon, according to her testimony, was no pleasant one, the husband threatening the wife and on divers occasions beating her with his fists This treatment continued until a few niglits ago when, as a climax cli-max to love's dream of living happily over after, the husband locked the doors of the couple's apartments in tho Colonial hotel and proceeded to pummel his wife for an imaginary flirtation he claimed she had carried on with another man. To stlllo her screams and thereby prevent Interference, Interfer-ence, he threw her on tho bed nnd nearl smotliered her with a pillow. It was for this act that she had a warrant war-rant issued for his arrest j When Salter mounted the witness chair, he told a storv contradictory .to ' that of his wife lie swore that he had always been a model husband, but that his wlfo had uot been true to him. The second day after the marriage ho found a man In the house. Ills wife had refused to cook his meals and had bonten him at odd times with various pieces of household furniture. He showed scars on his hands which he alleged his wife j.hci inlllctod with a hatchet. Ho stated that at times, j when his wife was not abusing him, her sister would maltreat him. Of ! the Incident In the Colonial hotel, he ' only knew that his wife had attacked him aud that ho had held her hands, begging her to be ladylike. With two such diverse stories to choose from, the court was In a predicament. pre-dicament. Neither the wife nor tho J husband produced any corroborative : testimony nnd the judge, after a few j moments of deliberation, admitted j that he did not know how to decide the matter. "I think the best thing I can recommend rec-ommend in this caso Is a divorce," said tho judge, in pnsslng on the case. |