FULL TEXT: Hackensack, N.J., Jan. 5. – Louise Rutter, who was convicted here yesterday of husband beating, was to-day sentenced to serve two months in the county jail as punishment. When she was called to the bar for sentence Judge Zabriskie said:
“Mrs. Rutter, if I am
not mistaken, this is the fourth time you have been before me charged with
offense.”
“That is wrong; this
is the fifth time,” was the cheerful reply.
“We’ll, it’s five
times too often,” said the Judge, “and I want to know if you intend to stop
having to come before me on this charge.”
“I guess not, so long
as occasion demands,” said Mrs. Rutter, complacently.
Judge Zabriskie looked
at the woman for fully a minute without speaking. Then he shook his head as if
admitting defeat and murmured: “Two months.”
The prisoner was led
away not altogether cast down.
Mrs. Rutter is
thirty-two years of age, strong, and muscular. Her husband, whom the law is
trying to protect, is fifty-five.
[“Fifth Time Once Too
Many. – Muscular Mrs. Rutter Gets Two Months for Beating Her Husband.” New York
Times (N.Y.), Jan. 6, 1900, p. 1]
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