Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1913 — ACCUSES SON OF AN ASSAULT [ARTICLE]

ACCUSES SON OF AN ASSAULT

Montclair Man Had Ax In Hand When Arrested —Mother Goes to to Hospital. Montclair, N. J.—Mrs. John McKee, sixty-five years old of 83 Orange road, appeared in the Montclair police court to make a charge of assault against her son John, twenty-seven years old. Mrs. McKee said her son attacked her in their home after they had quarreled about domestic affairs. Neighbors summoned the police, who found McKee with an axe in his band. Mrs. McKee had a fractured arm, a black eye and cuts and bruises on her face. McKee resisted arrest, but was taken to police headquarters after a struggle- \ The man was sent to jail to' await trial in default of one thousand dollars bail. Mrs. McKee was removed to Mountainside hospital. According to the records of the Montclair police department. McKee has been frequently charged with beating his mother, but she always pleaded for leniency for him.