Revenge by Cow
Created | Updated Mar 23, 2024
Revenge by Cow
This true story comes to us courtesy of the Library of Congress, which saves old newspapers. The item appeared in the Hartford (Kentucky) Herald, 30 April 1902.
Salted Her Husband and Let the Cows Lick Him. ENGLISH, IND[IANA], April 25. – Cruel and inhuman treatment will be the plea of Thomas Foley for divorce. His wife admits that she tied his hands and feet while he was drunk and applied salt to his hands, face and clothing, that the cattle in the field where he lay helpless might lick him to death as a revenge for a beating she received during a drunken orgy. Foley's skin was raw in many places and his clothing in shreds.