People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — seventy Days for Kitsing His Wife. [ARTICLE]

seventy Days for Kitsing His Wife.

St. Louis Journal: Lewis Weiniger was released from the Hudson county, New Jersey, jail at Hoboken on the 14th Inst., where he had been confined seventy days on the charge of having kissed his own wife at his own home. He was caught in the act by a Hoboken detective. The Journal welcomes Weiniger back to the world, and hopes he will not soon be caught again in the act of comittlng so great a crime. We also thank the trial court and the jury who sat on the case for declaring that after keeping a man in jail seventy days and his wife twenty-six days in jail for kissing each other, declared that a man in New Jersey has a right in that state, and especially in Hoboken, to kiss his own wife in his own home. But the court will do the world a greater favor if it will decide whose business It is to restore that little restaurant at 404 Bloomfield street that was closed up because of the arrest of Weiniger and his wife? Whose business it is to restore the broken up home that was so full of promise and hope at the time the arrest was made? Who must compensate Mr. and Mrs. Weiniger for the disgrace and persecution of a term in jail since It was decided that a man has a lawful right to kiss his wife in New Jersey if he wants to and his wife is willing? What rights have a working man that Jersey courts and her bloodhounds of the plutocrats are bound to ( respect? We presume that a working man in Jersey has a right to serve as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water for a heartless master, but when he gives any evidence of happiness or affection he usurps the rights of the rich and must be punished.