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The Daily Independent
Chippewa Falls, WI
Saturday, 28 June, 1902

         Hon. S. D. HUBBARD'S Daughter 
           Most Brutally Beaten at Her
             Home in Mondovi
             
         The Eau Claire Leader and Telegram received a graphic
       description of the scenes at the trial of Miss ANNA PARR
       at Mondovi. For a time the excitement at the Buffalo
       county town bordered on riot. Threats of treating Miss
       PARR to a coat of tar and feathers were freely made.
         The woman is housekeeper at the home of Hon. S. D.
       HUBBARD, of Mondovi. MR. HUBBARD has been at the Sacred
       Heart Hospital in this city for some time, suffering
       from a carbuncle. During the father's absence, Miss 
       PARR beat his daughter; RUTH HUBBARD, aged nine years
       most shamefully. The child is a slight little thing of
       a retiring inoffensive disposition. The woman is a per-
       son of the most violent and brutal temper. At the trial
       it transpired that RUTH had been found wandering by
       neighbors, they took her in. Her body showed signs of
       the most severe punishment. Her shoulders were swollen
       frightfully, blood streamed from many cuts and lacer-
       ations on the body. When found the child was without
       shoes or stockings, her clothes were bloody and she
       was in a most pitiful and serious condition. She had
       escaped from her tormentor and had tramped through
       the brush  and woods. She was found about 9 o'clock
       at night, she had escaped from Miss PARR at 8 o'clock
       in the morning.
         The child was taken to the home of her brother in
       Mondovi, where she received medical attendance. In
       court the doctor testified that RUTH must have re-
       ceived at least twenty blows.
         The case of Miss PARR was heard before Justice
       CENAR. The prisoner pleaded guilty and was fined
       $50 and cost, amounting to $57.17, which was paid,
       it is said, by MR. HUBBARD.
         The affair caused more excitement than anything
       that has occurred in Mondovi for many years. Many
       threats of tar and feathers were made, and the most
       sensational rumors are current.
      
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