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COULDN’T FIND THE AX.Therefore Tom Starniski Operates on His Wife With a Hatchet,Thomas Starniski, a slavish ex-traction, this morning assaulted his wife with a hatchet and had it not been for the interference of neigh bors, murder would have resulted.As it was the woman is frightfully in-jured and the unnatural husband is confronted with a charge of as_csault with intent to kill.Neither Starniski nor his wife can speak plain English, and it is difficult to obtain anything like correct details of the affair. From what can be learned, the two becam° in volved in a quarrel at their home at (Hh and Vine streets this forenoon, because the husband insisted on resting when his wife wanted him to work Starniski’s command of Ian* guage being insufficient, he began looking for an ax with which to give proper expression to his remarks, failing to find the ax, he just took the hatchet and operated on his better half with that.He chopped a big hole in her forehead. broke a few ribs and then4put the hatchet under his coat and took to the woods. Marshal Black was called, but the man was gone before the officer reached the scene of cunbial iufelicity. Dr. McGrew was called, and he patched the injured woman up and announced that her injuries will not prove fatal. The neighbors are indignant and say if Starniski isn’t punished by the law, they will take the matter in hand themselves at the next outbreak. Family fights there are of too frequent occurance and they are getting tired of it,Starniski after hiding in the woods until this evening, came into Prosecutor Sparks’ office and gave Vim. |‘A self up. The prosecutor could not understand him and Frank Micheii was called as interpreter. Starniski says his wife ordered him out of the house, hit him with a poker and choked him. He savs that the wo-i/man first got the hatchet and that she was hurt while he was trying to take it from her. His story is given for what it is worth.
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Clinton Weekly Clintonian
Clinton, Indiana, US
Fri, Jan 25, 1901
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