FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): White Plains, N. Y., Sept. 20. – Mrs. Nellie Eickenhorst, 42 years old, of 145 West Lincoln Avenue, Mount Vernon, took the law into her own hands this morning, and horsewhipped her husband, frank, 40 years old, in an effort, she said, to make him awaken to a sense of his responsibility toward her. The whipping occurred when she met him in front of Police Headquarters.
A charge of
abandonment preferred against Eickenhorst by his wife was dismissed by City
Judge Bernstein in Special Sessions Court this morning when Mrs. Eickenhorst
admitted that their husband was living at her home. He would not work and
support her, she said, and she had been compelled to work as a saleswoman.
Following the
dismissal of the charge, Mrs. Eickenhorst went to a hardware store where she
purchased a three-foot whip. With this she slashed her husband about the face
and body when she met him in Valentine street. Policeman Charles Roehl ran from
headquarters and warned the woman to stop. She continued to beat her husband,
and finally struck him in the face partly blinding him.
By this time a crowd
had gathered, by the sight and by the cries of Eickenhorst, who endeavored to
protect himself from his wife’s blows by covering his head with his arms as he
lay on the ground before her. Mrs. Eickenhorst was persuaded to stop and
surrendered her whip, after which she was arrested on a charge of disorderly
conduct. She was released in bonds of $250 for hearing tomorrow morning.
[“Whips Her Husband As
Crowd Looks On – Wife Beats Man Near Police Headquarters in Mt. Vernon Till He
Is Partly Blind. – Then Is Freed In $250 Bail – Abandonment Charge Brought by
Her Had Just Been Dismissed – She Says He Will Not Support Her.” New York Times
(N.Y.), Sep. 21, 1927, p. 30]
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FULL TEXT (Article 2
of 2): FULL TEXT: White Plains, N. Y., Sept. 21 –
City Judge Jacob Bernstein gave a suspended sentence this morning to Mrs.
Nellie Eickenhorst, 42 years old, in front of Police Headquarters yesterday
morning.
Mrs. Eickenhorst was warned by Judge
Bernstein that her activity with a whip must cease.
The whipping followed the dismissal in
court yesterday of a charge of abandonment brought by Mrs. Eickenhorst against
her husband. she had admitted that he was living with her but asserted she was
forced to support herself and that Eickenhorst sat around the house all day.
When the case was dismissed she appeared upset and left the court room, going
to a nearby store where she a very heavy dog whip.
Meeting her husband she warned him that
although he might escape punishment in court he would suffer at her hands and
lashed him about the face and body.
Mrs. Eickenhorst appeared penitent this
morning in court. Eickenhorst said he was not anxious to press a charge against
his wife.
[“Husband Whipper Freed. – Mount Vernon
Wife Appears Penitent – Man Refuses to Press Charge.” New York Times (N.Y.),
Sep. 22, 1927, p. 12]
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