Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07
A Wife with a Club.

She Keeps IL Between the Pillow
and the HeadbOard-Dre of
Burglars-Goes 60 Sleep and
Don't DreaIn--The Club In Oper-
ati0n--WonderfuI Discovery Of q
Thief.
From the Dayton Journal
A gentleman whose home is in
the Seventh ward, is agent for an
agricultural establishment, and is
absent from home certain seasons
of the year, soliciting orders for
machines. His wife has not felt
safe to stay at night with her lit
tie family, without the protection
of a big club which she placed be-
tween the pillow and the head
board of the bed. Although her
husband had been absent great
many times, she had no occasion
to use the club on any burglar or
prowler; and she had at length
grown careless and neglected to
put the club in its accustomed
place. Her husband was absent
last week, and one night she
dreamed that man approached
her bed with drawn butcher
knife She reached for her club,
and it was not there The vii
lain made a thrust at her throat,
but before she felt the cold blade
she awoke in terror from her
dreafh She got up instantly
and secured the club, and the ball
ance of the night she slept secure
| ly.
This story she related to her
neighbors, who laughed at her for
depending on a worthless stick, :"
&c. The next night Mrs. X was
awakened by a slight noise at her
bedroom door. She instinctively
grasped the club. The next mo-
ment she saw man making bis
way stealthily into her room.
She made up her mind in an in
slant that she would remain silent
and passive until he came 10 fair
reach of her club, when she would
shit him bat over the head"
While she was calculating how
, she could best infict a blow on the
scoundrel, he passed within a cou,
pie of feet of her bed, on his way
to inspect bureau at the foot Of
the bed !; and the moment his back
was on line with the centre of
! the bed, she suddenly sprang up
, and struck him blow on the head
, with all the power she was capa.
BILE.
!. The man fell as though he had
been shot, and he lay on the floor
; a moment groaning as though in
the agonies of dissolution. The
moment after Mrs. x. had struck
the blow, her woman s nature re-
turned, and she dropped the club
and covered down under the bed
clothes, almost unconscious of the
situation. When she ventured to
; look out over the room some time
afterward, the man had disap-
peared. 1t was getting daylight,
and Mrs. x. determined to arise
and make a reconnaissance of the
premises. First and foremost she
found blood on the foor-enough
to satisfy her that she had made
it serious for somebody with her
club. The window in the kitchen
down stairs was raised, and there
was blood on the window frame.
Nothing had been interfered with
anywhere about the house.
1t appeared that she had put a
stop to the fellows operations at
the very outstart. Now Mrs. x.
had some very unpleasant suspi.
cions as to who her visitor of the
, early morning was. He bore SC
close a resemblance to a neighbor
, sihat she thought it must be he.
] She visited her neighbours house
and learned that Der husband was
in bed sick. That gave more col.
, or than ever to her suspicion and
when Mr.. x. arrived home the
/ next day, and really had some bust.
: ness with the sick man and insis.
ted on seeing him, and having q
few, words with him, he found him
with his head bandaged, and signs
of blood on the clothes and on the
,, pillow And Anew words satisfied
him that, his neighbor was the
party whom his wife had "batted
over the head" the previous morn
: ing, Mrs. X. believes that club
is a good thing to have about the
! house.
For Posterity.