Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1913 — LOVES MAN WHO BEAT HER [ARTICLE]

LOVES MAN WHO BEAT HER

Girl In Chicago Court Convicts Him on Testimony, Then Tries to Free Him. Chicago. —After Fred Wagner was fined |IOO and costs by Municipal Judge Mahoney for beating her. Miss Marie Sholda put her arms around his neck and with tears streaming down her face begged the judge to release him. “I love him, judge, and I’ll pay his fine if I can if you’ll only let him go," the girl sobbed. “Please let him go." Judge Mahoney didn’t see the matter in that light. The girl’s face was cut and bruised. She testified that she had met Wagner in Milwaukee and had come to Chicago with him on his promise to marry her. She said she woke up in the night at the Haymarket hotel in West Madison street and Wagner was beating her with a shoe. He jumped from a sec-ond-story window when she screamed and broke his right leg. He denied he tried to take her money, |550.