Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — Woman Can Kill Brutal Husband. [ARTICLE]

Woman Can Kill Brutal Husband.

A wife hns a right to kill n brutal husband. This, in substance, is the ruling of a Chicago justice before whom a woman was on trial for slaying her life’s partner. The woman was Mrs. Jessie A. Hopkins, who shot her husband at their home Jgn. 1, after he had attacked and threatened to kill her. Judge Kersten this week instructed the jury to dismiss the defendant, with the remark that “if a woman is unfortunate enough to .marry a brute she has n right .to defend [herself even to the point of taking his jlife.”