Frank King On Trial for Keeping Wife Chained to Bed Post, July 22, 1925

Chained Wife to Bed Post. . . Frank King of Capella Section Held for Superior Court on Serious Charge—His Wife Sent to County Home

According to the evidence of the witnesses examined in the trial here Sunday before Justice N.A. Martin, Frank King of the Capella section has kept his wife chained to the bed post at home for weeks and has otherwise abused her.

King stated that his wife was mentally unbalanced and that he was compelled to confine her. He was held for Superior court in a bond of $300 which was signed by his son-in-law.

Mrs. King was ordered sent to the county h9ome temporarily and will probably be sent to a State hospital later.

From the front page of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, July 22, 1925

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