“He deserved it”: an
entire philosophy summarized in three simple words.
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FULL TEXT: New York –
An unremorseful wife was held by police yesterday for methodically stabbing and
beating her husband with a hammer over an eight hour period following an
argument.
“He deserved it,” said
Mrs. Myrtle Devlin, 36, a Negress, when arraigned on a felonious assault charge
before Magistrate Amedo Lauritano. The attack occurred Saturday.
Mrs. Devlin weighs
about 100 pounds, her 35-year-old husband, James, about 180.
Police said the woman
told them she stabbed him first in the
chest and body when he accused her of infidelity after 15 years of marriage. He
crawled into another room where she followed and struck him repeatedly over the
head with a hammer.
Afterwards she fell
asleep, according to the police resort. When she awakened she found the
bleeding man had crawled into bed, so she got a larger kitchen knife and cut
his throat.
The husband’s
condition was reported serious by hospital officials, who said almost his
entire blood supply had to be replaced.
[“Say Wife Beat
Husband For 8 Hours,” syndicated (AP), Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.), Jul. 13,
1953, p. 5]
[Correction: original
text reads: “He crawled in another room …”]
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