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HORSEWHIPPED CHARMERWOMAN CATCHBS HIS BAM) ANDFAIR ONE AT OMAHA.Lane Crawd at Statloa Wltnraaftl ThreaMag AdmlntaterH by Mrs.Hlrsaa Joslyn.OMAHA. Neb, July 1ft. — After chasing her runaway husband halfacross the country, Mrs. Hiram Jos-lyn of Middletown, Pa., caught up with Hiram and A bleached blonde from home at the Burlington depot yesterday and gave the intruder on her domestic happiness one of the most strenuous whippings ever witnessed In I Omaha.The station was crowded with people waltlug for trains, or expecting friends to arrive, when the commotion started. A short time previously a heavy-set man was noticed talking excitedly to an athlettc-looklng young woman of the Gibson girl type. She wore an abundance of golden hair.All of a sudden Mrs. Joslyn swept Into the waiting room and catching a glimpse of her recalitrant spouse, made a dash toward his companion. Hiram and his lady friend saw Mrs. Joslyn approach and started to hide behind each other when they saw her unllmber a black-snake whip from beneath the folds of her skirt.With a rush like a football player Mrs. Joslyn tore Into the pair, but herhusband sidestepped the first onslaught and the heavy quirt fell on the blanched facp of Joslyn’s companion. After the woman escaped there was a family reunion between Hiram and *hls wife, the woman doing all the talking and Hiram keeping still. To some of the people who witnessed the whipping Mrs. Joslyn said her husband had run away from home a week ago after drawing his pay at a distillery where he had been employed as foreman. She said Hiram’s charmer was a Mrs. Nettie Willson, a milliner wholived In Harrisburg, Pa.
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Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Tue, Jul 11, 1911
Page 11
Full Page
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