The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-02-11
a WIFE WITH 4 cum.
she Keeps IL Between the Pillow mud the
Hcadboard-Dreams of burglars Gors
TO sleep uud Don't Drcnm-The club in
Operation Wonderful Discovery of a
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From re DuBio, journal
gentleman whose home is IN the Seventh
Ward, IL agent for agricultural establishment,
ana is absent from home certain seasons Of tie year
soliciting orders for machines. HIS wife has not
fot safe to stay ut night with her little family with
out the protection Of big club which she placed be-
though her husband had been absent q great mnny
tunes, che had no occasion TO uso the club on any
careless and neglected to put the club In its sccos.
toned place. Her husband was absent last week,
and one ni-ht she dreamed that man approached
Ter ped with drawn butcher knife She reached Tor
her ciup. and It was not there The villain made
thrust at her throat, but before she felt the cod
blade she awoke IN terror from her dretmi she aot
up Instantly aud secured the club, and the laance
ol Ne nigh, sue slept securely.
laLgI,d at Ter for depending on a WORTHLESS
suck &C. The neat night Mrs. Y. was awakened
by slight nose at her bedroom door. She In
saw man making his way stcalthily into her room.
She made up her MUD in an instant that she woud
remain silent and passive until he came In fair reach
o' her cnb, when she would mt him bat over
the head " While she was calculating how she could
beet nlct ALLOW on the scoundrel he pessed within
couple Of feet Of her bed, on his way TO inspect
bureau nj the foot OF the bed : and the moment b..
back was on line with the centre OF the bed. she
suddenly sprang J.? .ai struck him a blow OIL the
head with all the IOwcr d., was capable.
The man fell ~ t'udsh he hai been shot. and he
ay on me noor q" 'nsut rroan'ng az though IN the
aEonies OF dissolution. the mutnent amer Mrs Y
had struck the oluA, her " mao nature returned
and she dropped thu cub and co vered down under
he ueuciothet hlIipss UNCONSCIOUS ol the situhtlon
When she yentuTcd TO i,Ok out over the room some
time afterward, tie mah had disappeared. II was
getting daylight, and Mrs. x determined TO arise
and make reeonnoissAnee OF the premises. First
and foremost che found blood on the Hoor-enouRh
TO satisfy her that she had made serious for some
BODY with her club. The window IN the kitchen
down stairs was raised, ana there was blood on the
window frame Nothing had been nteTfered with
anywhere about the house.
II appeared that she had nut stop 10 tie fcIloN
operations at the very outstart. Now, MIR. Y had
come very unpleasant suspicious TO who Der yisi-
tor OF tie early morning was. He bore 70 close
resemblance 10 heigebor that she thought II mu
be he she visited her ucgboIs house, and lear ned
that the husband WAS in bed sick. That gave more
color than ever TO her suspicion; ard when Mr. Y.
arrived home the next day and really had some buSi.
ness with the SICK man, and insisted seeing i'm,
and having few words with him, he found him
clothes and on the pillow And few words satis.
ned him that his ncighbOr was the party whom mis-
wife had bltted over the head the previous morn
ing. Mrs. X believes that club Ii good IL ng to
have about the house.