FULL TEXT: [Alton, Missouri] – Mrs. John Rigsby, who weighs ninety pounds, pleaded guilty in the City Court at Alton yesterday of whipping her husband, who weighs 160 pounds. She was fined $25 by Justice R. C. Few of Alton, and, on failing to pay the fine, was sent to the City Jail.
Mr.
Rigsby prosecuted his wife, he said, because she “beat him unmercifully several
times a day.” The Rigsbys live in a tent on the river bank in that part of
Alton known as the “Green.”
A day
or two ago, Rigsby asserted, his wife administered a beating to him that was unusually
severe, and he decided to appeal to the law for protection. In relating his
troubles to the Judge has said that he was black and blue and sore all over
from the effects of the beatings administered to him by his spouse. “I am tired
of being used as a punching bag for the development of Mrs. Rigsby’s biceps,”
he told the Judge.
It
was remarked that Rigsby was a pretty big man to fear a beating from alike Mrs.
Rigsby.
Rigsby
said that he never gave his wife any cause to treat him so. She declares that
he came home the other day and accused her of receiving attentions from another
man. She resented his charge, she answered, and, to emphasize her indignation,
handed him a few mild punches. She succeeded in subduing him to such an extent
that he appealed to the law for satisfaction.
The
police, it is said, are looking for the supposed other man in the case, but
just what charge will be placed against him has not been made known. Neither
Mr. nor Mrs. Rigsby, it was stated, would give this man’s name.
[“Wife
Fined For Whipping Husband. – Mrs. J. Rigsby, Weighing Ninety Pounds, Bested
Her Lord, Who Carries 160. – Remanded To The City Jail. - She Declares She
Merely Resented His Charge That She Received Attentions From Another Man.” The
St. Louis Republic (Mo.), Jun. 16, 1900. p. 8]
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