Jealousy reared its ugly head when Mrs. Eitner found out he husband was giving a widowed woman car rides to town.
One day she grabbed a dog leash, followed her husband to the other woman’s door, and whipped the temptress with the leash.
Here’s the report from 1924:
Woman Whipper Held
NEWARK, N.J., December 31, 1924. — Mrs. Albert Eitner of Irvington today was held for the grand jury on charges of atrocious assault and battery made by Mrs. Rose Donahue, a widow, who alleged that she was whipped by Mrs. Eitner.
Counsel for Mrs. Eitner, in whose custody she was paroled, told Judge Gritce that Mrs. Eitner had followed her husband to Mrs. Donahue’s home, armed with a dog leash, because she thought her husband was being enticed.
The alleged attack was the outcome of Mrs. Eitner’s trip.
Mrs. Donahue asserted that, while Eitner had occasionally taken her down town in his car, his attentions were only those of friendship.
Source: Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 31 Dec. 1924.
