A sleeping man was awoken to blows from his hammer-wielding wife, after she found a pair of women's underwear in their washing machine around 11:30 Tuesday night in the 1400 block of East Rose.
The man told police his irate wife walked into the bedroom and started yelling about the underwear. Then, moments later, she hit him with a hammer twice in the head and once in the foot during an altercation in the kitchen.
The man said once she hit him with the hammer, he punched her in the face causing minor swelling to her eye. The report said the husband had a laceration on his eye and a minor injury to his foot. He was transported by ambulance to Great River Medical Center.
mbrasfield@blythevillecourier.com