Makes me somewhat doubtful of feminist claims that a "blind eye" was turned to domestic abuse. It's not really clear if there was physical injury? Events occured Saturday. The following Monday, he gets one month on Riker's Island!

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1878/07/29/81727399.html

A CRUEL HUSBAND.

Frank Murphy, of No. 542 West Forty-fourth-street, received his weekly wages on Saturday night, and instead of returning home to his wife, who lay sick in bed, he visited numerous saloons and became beastly drunk. When he did come home, which was at a very unseemly hour, he commenced abusing his wife, using the vilest epithets to her, and amused himself in a mild way by upsetting chairs and tables, and throwing them around indiscriminately. His mother-in-law. Mrs. Isabella Dobbs, for the purpose of protecting her daughter from Murphy's abuse, interfered, but instead of helping to quiet things she only made matters worse, as her son-in-law lost all control of himself and would certainly have used her badly if she had not retreated hurriedly. Murphy was introduced to Justice Duffy yesterday, in the Fifty-seventh-Street Police Court, and by virtue of his conduct on Saturday night will ruminate on the Island for one month.