Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1914 — MAN WORE TACK BELT IN BED [ARTICLE]

MAN WORE TACK BELT IN BED

Husband Tells Cotfrt It Prevented Wife From Waking Him—Judge Advises Arbitration. Salem, Miss.—Herbert Bye of this city, thirty-five years old, an Englishman by birth, was before Judge Sears in the-district court on a charge of non-support. “My husband goes to bed every night at nine o’clock," Mrs. -Bye told the judge. "If I have not been in the bedroom at that hour he has locked the door and refused to admit me. He has been wearing a belt with tacks sticking from IL and several times I have been cut by the points." x Bye admitted he has been using a

tack belt, but pleaded extenuating circumstances. Judge Sears asked an explanation and Bye said: "I have to rise edrly, and my wife has been in the habit of going to bed after I have gone to sleep. Then she would bump against me and my sleep was frequently interrupted. “I got a piece of leather belting and hammered tacks through from the inside, so the, points protruded. After I began wearing it my wife stayed op her own side of the bed. “Several times my wife has been angered and has tried to choke me,” concluded Bye. Judge Sears told Bye he had acted like a six-year-old child, and advised arbitration. "I am willing,” was Bye’s reply, "if my wife will apologize for disobeying my qrder not to go walking with her mother.” Mrs. Bye was ready to apologize, but the judge advised her that it would not be necessary. Moreover, she need not retire nightly at nine. The tack-belt wearer was . ordered to provide for his wife and give her also |2 a week spending money.