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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1919
Page
12
Roger D. King an oil salesman earning 15000 testified before Judge Hitchcock recounting that after returning from the South in his first lieutenant’s uniform his wife Elizabeth K. King spat in his face and on the uniform. He said she used abusive language and on one occasion struck his eye and skinned his nose. He seeks release from marital obligations on grounds of cruel and abusive treatment.
Mrs. King testifies that her husband blocked her eye during a visit to Manchester Connecticut and said she ran into a boy. She reports being choked and thrown, then placed on a floor after a checker game in which he was losing, and explains his anger at being beaten.
In court Mrs. King testified she never struck her husband except in self-defense saying that such a view aligns with a woman’s duty. She described their 1915 marriage in Manchester Connecticut and alleged marital quarrels including jealousy and accusations of infidelity.
Over 300 members of the Daughters of Isabella gathered at the American House for their annual banquet and reunion. Retiring State regent Mrs Nellie Crowley and secretary Miss Helen Lally were honored with presentations. Mrs Frank Scanlon delivered the address with Mrs John J Salmon presiding as new State regent.
Eva Claffy of Woburn testified to the special committee investigating state institutions that her brother, an inmate at Danvers, was beaten six times by an attendant. James A. Haliburton cited poor sanitary conditions at Boston State Hospital and said inmates lack sufficient clothing. The committee said it will inquire into Danvers conditions.
Miss Claffy testified her brother, labeled a harmless patient, suffered four blackened eyes, two ear injuries, and a knockout after refusing chores. The attendant who abused him has left the state, and the committee will pursue action.
A Black man convicted of the Sept 30 murder of W. A. Adkins near here was sentenced to die in the electric chair in Little Rock on January 2, 1920. Adkins' death sparked October race disturbances that left five whites dead and many Negroes killed. Ware was the 12th Black individual sentenced to death that year following the disorders.
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