Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1912 — CHOPS OFF HER FINGERS [ARTICLE]

CHOPS OFF HER FINGERS

Step-Father Malms Giri Who Supports Him Because She Intended to Wed. New York. —Salvator Spino was content to let his step-daughter sit up nights over shirtwaists brought home from the sweatshop, so long as the money she earned with her nimble fingers went to him. Recently she brought a young man home with her, and told him they were going to wed. The girl’s fiance, wha had picked a home for Antoinette, told Spino thatfhe had better get a job, as In the future he would not live from a woman’s earnings. ’’You’ll never sew for a worthless husband,” cried the enraged man, and he struck her hand with a hatchet, chopping off all her fingers. He is held without ball for felonious assault