Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1902 — Wife Defends Herself with Knife. [ARTICLE]

Wife Defends Herself with Knife.

Chicago, Oct. 21). —To avoid a beating Mrs. Charles Mauch stabbed her husband In the abdomen with a butch-er-knife at their home, 1808 Washington boulevard. Inflicting a wound which physicians say may prove fatal. The woman’s refusal of her husband’s demand for money caused him to attack her with a poker and she was struck several times on the head before she seized the knife and plunged it into him. The injuries she received made It necessary to send her to the county jail hospital.