FULL TEXT: If husbands are severely punished for wife-beating, why not wives for husband-beating? So asked Frank Jefferson of Pittsburgh of Magistrate Saam when he was arraigned on his wife’s charge of choking her. the most henpecked man in Pennsylvania, maybe, a common or garden worm is a mastodon of strength and courage beside him. But with a brace of burly policemen beside him and a receptive judge before him, Jefferson mustered up gumption enough to tell his sad story.
“There never was such a jealous woman,” began Jefferson.
“She won’t let me go to the theatre because I might look at the chorus girls.
She caught me reading an advertisement of a department store and gave me the
deuce because there was a woman’s picture on it. Last night I was looking at a
fashion plate and she caught me. I got well talked to and then I was let go to
bed.
“Soon I was waked up with trouble,” he told the Court. “I
had to protect myself and I did.”
And the upshot of it was that the wife and not the husband
was fined $10.
[“Husband-Beater Fined $10.” The Pittsburg Press (Pa.), Jul.
21, 1912, Magazine section, p. 5 (?)]
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