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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, July 18, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 8

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ALL THE WAY FROM PUNCHES TO PILLS GOES
DOMESTIC HOT WEATHER DRAMA
With all the elements of blood and
thunder melodrama, from the knock-me-down
fight to the mysterious
"pills," Pat and May Fitzpatrick air
ed their domestic rioting in the do
mestic relations court yesterday with
Judge Rooney and Ass't State's Att'y
Rosinia as the referees.
Rosinia tried to prevent the bout
from being staged by arranging a
cash sum for which Mrs. Fitzpatrick
would agree to give the decision to
Pat, but Pat couldn't see it that way
and said he'd rather go to the mat
with Mrs. Pat So they went
"I married this man four years
ago," said Mrs. Pat "Off and on
I've been able to live with him for
about a year out of the four. He left
me two weeks ago because I handed
him the gas bill to pay. He said he
wouldn't pay it, nor any of my bills.
He was going to lick me, so I raised
a holler and had the whole neighbor
hood out
"That night I heard footsteps in
the hall and I says: 'Who's there?''
He says: 'I'll get you yet when
you're asleep.' "
"I will now ask you- about these
pills," said Rosinia, introducing
some mysterious white pellets.
"One morning I was watching him
and I saw him doing something funny
with the coffee, but I dlfln't think
anything of it, only I drank a cup
and was good and sick. The next
morning I watched him from behind
the china closet and he had some
white pills, and after he poured his
cup of coffee he put a pill fnto the
pot for me and I didn't drink it I
hunted for the pills and I found them
in his pants' pocket and I took
them."
Thereupon Chas. E. Gibson, city
chemist, was produced and said that
some pills had been brought to him
by Mrs. Pat and he had found them
to be five-grain bichloride of mer
cury pills.
Pat denied the pills absolutely and
wanted to tell the story of his mar
ried life, datine with the nerind when
he said his, wife had her divorced aj,
husband livine in his house as a "J
roomer, but Judge Rooney confined
him to the question of the pills "that
he never saw before," and it was
agreed that Pat should pay Mrs. Pat
the sum of $7 a week and permit her
to take away that portion of the fur
niture she felt she was entitled to.
So she agreed to take the dishes,
the rugs, the table, the chairs, the
pictures, the bed, the mattress, the
pillows and a couch. When she
wanted to include the phonograph
Pat rebelled and the judge ruled she
couldn't have it, and would have to
split 50-50 on the dishes.
Fred and August Schultz had a
twelfth-wedding anniversary on Sun
day and Fred celebrated it locked up
on a warrant taken out by Augusta,
who charged him with non-suppore
of the two children.
Mrs. Schultz said four years ago
she asked Fred for a quarter and in
stead of the quarter he "hauled off
and hit her a smash in the face." She
said she scratched his face, but only
for self-protection, and that there
upon Fred departed, and five days
afterward she brought the children
to her parents' home in Chicago.
Fred admitted the fight, but said
it came about because, though he
had cautioned Augusta several times
not to strike him, she persisted in
doing so.
Case continued for decision as to
whether Fred comes under the juris
diction of Chicago court His home
is Summerville, Mass.
Camden. Wilson Ashbride, await
ing trial for murder of vaudeville
actress, and Geo. E. Thnmnsnn
awaiting trial for forgery, escaped
from county jail after murdering the
keeper and wounding assistant
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