She MAKES ASSAILANT FLEE BY STABBING HIM WITH HAT PIN
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Special Dispatch to the Evening Journal.
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 6--Moses Gibbons had the audacity to take Mrs. Mattle Falkerson on his knee and soundly spank her. The spanking occurred in the front of her home, No. 317 South Third Street and attracted a big crowd.
Mrs. Falkerson was scrubbing the front steps when Mr. Gibbons whom she never saw before, came along and asked her to play "catcher" with him. When she refused, Gibbons threw her across his knee and spanked her severely.
While being spanked Mrs Falkerson grabbed a hat pin which she plunged into Gibbons back.
He dropped her and ran off pursued by a mob. He was arrested and after his wounds were dressed Judge Sidener fined him $10 and costs.
Gibbons had no excuse to offer for his peculiar action.