Did She Run Into A Wagon

Did She Run Into a Wagon

Or Did Her Husband Hit Her With a Shoe

The Question in the Assault and Battery Case of the Whitmore Lake Blacksmith

Rudolph Ludholtz, shoer of horses at Whitmore Lake, was bound over to the circuit court, Wednesday, by Justice Frank Taylor, of the Lake, for alleged assault upon his wife.

The testimony was to the effect that the smith beat Mrs. Ludholtz about the head with a shoe because she had neglected to have water ready for his tri-weekly bath when he carne home one evening, and was slow in getting paper from a neighbor's.

"I didn't touch her with a shoe," he said with a great show of indignation, "I just slapped her a few times with my open hand.'

"How did she get those marks on her forehead?" asked the justice.

"She must have run into a wagon that stands in the yard," responded Ludholtz.

The justice didn't see it that way, and the smith was bound over to the circuit court.