Police Officer Arrested for Brutal Assault on Wife

In a state of frenzy caused by the belief that his wife was untrue to him, J. C. Williams, a police officer who has been on the department since the advent of the present administration, yesterday afternoon beat his wife into a state of insensibility, kicked her body into a corner, and was ready to pounce upon his two young children when deterred by neighbors. Police headquarters was notified and Williams was subsequently arrested and locked in a cell at the city jail. He pleaded guilty to the charge of assault before Judge Arntson late yesterday afternoon and will be sentenced today after Mrs. Williams has given her evidence. The officer lives with his wife and family at East Thirty-fourth and O streets. He has had petty quarrels with his wife for the past seven years, according to statements made today by both parties. When being led to the police station by detectives, Williams looked at his hands, which had been bruised severely, and pointing to two fingers on which the bones had been laid bare by his inhuman action, exclaimed savagely, 'That's the way I do business when I get started.' In his cell yesterday afternoon, Williams said between gritted teeth that he was not sorry for the affair, and that he cared not if the sentence were two minutes or 200 years. He was removed from the police department immediately after the matter had been brought before Mayor Linck and Chief Duley.