Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-12-24
A C0MBIN LOCK.
H WAS ATTACHED TO A CLOSET
DOOR AND CREATED A SCENE.

SOOh NiN6 SftGNiEb SCENE.
Marie Wainwright Tell. "a story of How
an Actor Game Very Near kIlIIng HIs |
Newly Welded Wife Rescued by tho |
LAndiady Amer Horrible Suspense.
The incident hereafter told was an
actual happening.
In chicago some years ago an actor
and actress husband and wife-who
had grown tired Of hotel living. and who !
were booked for stay of several weeks
IN that city, resolved To take a suit Of
furnished rooms and get their meals
when and where their inclinations might
direct. They arrived IN Chicago on
Sunday, and after some tiresome search.
ing found ON Dearborn street exactly
what they sought. or at least as near it
as Is often gwen to lodging seekers to
obtain.
The woes uf letters of board and lodg.
ing have frequently been told in papers
comic and otherwise. but the woes of
the seeker of the same would furnish
almost as fruitful a theme. The suit ne.
terred to consisted of "a parlor, bedroom
aud bathroom. Evidently the building
had been intended originally for office
uses, as in the bedroom was a large safe
or vault of the most massive construc.
tion. Instead of being used To hold se-
curities Of priceless value, it was de-
voted to the humber duty OF receiving
clothing. The heavy steel door, some
five inches thick. was supplied with a
combination lock
This was novelty To the wife, who,
rs soon as she had bestowed some OF her
wraps in the safe. began superficial
study of the mechanism. She could not.
Of course. make out much about it. and
her lord and master offered. in his supe-
rior wisdom, 10 explain it,
A. oNSIScIEsT HUSBAND.
IAN yau have to do he said. ''is to /.
think of word. shut the door. then
spell the word on this dial, turn the
handle and then no one can opeu il who
doesn't know tine combination Now
step in for "a moment; will lock YOU in
on the word open and let you out again /.
In an instant"
The wife. who had not been married /
long enough 20 discover that her hus. |
band WAS not as clever as he thought, (
stepped gayly into The vault
1T will be awfuliy dark and stlffy |
here with the door closed" she ex.
claimed.
Don't Le afraid. dear; III let YOU out .
again before YOU have time to think"
He turned the handle, worked the .
combination 10 open" worked it back I
again. pulled at the door. hut there was /
no sign of its yielding. Franticaliy he |
again ran the Indicator over the letters (
making the word. but still the door |
would not bndge He shouted encour-
agingly TO his wife, but it was evident
that she could not hear him. for there
came no reply, though he thought there
was faint sound Of rapping.
WAS she already dead for want OF
air. was the first awful thought: but he
remembered that the vault was at least
six feet square, and even if perfectly air |
tight must contain enough air to support |
life for some little time. Blu. for how
long: IL was Sunday 1t might be
hours before he could find locksmith,
and even then it might take more hours
W AhAAA Aibbl. MS
might be dead. He would be her slayerl
Perhaps the law would call it murder!
Az UNFEEIISG REsCURR-
These thoughts flashed through his
mind in less time than it takes To read
them. After shouting some reassuring
words he rushed up to the landlady's
room on the floor above, and breathlessly
and almost unintelligibly told sometl ing
Of the trouble
You're the second fool who's got into
q mess meddling with that safe" was
the old womans comforting comment
'Never mind thatr he cried. "Can
you get her out before she diesg"
Yes. ! can. don'i have things about
don't understand. and il did find
them | wouldn't meddle with them.
Never mind that, my good woman;
only come and open the door.
Its easy TO seq you amt long mar
ried, was her grumbling comment, AZ
she waddled after him down the stairs.
She gave few turns 10 the handle and
threw the door open The wife was dis.
covered in a dead faint. but evidently
still alive
A good many dollars spent in doctors
fees and present for the landlady to
some extent repaired the damages of the
husbands experiment, but nothing could
repair his eternally damaged reputation
for omniscience. In after DAYS his wife
was even occasionally known TO hint
that he had tried to kill her, and tina,
she was sorry he hadn't succeeded and
been duly hanged.
A day or two after the occurrence he
said to the landlady, How was it the ,
door wouldn't open on the combination ,
| used:'
Because, she answered, you must !
release the lock from one combination ,
before you can set it on another. You i
men don't know everything, though you .
generally think YOU do. Marie Vain. |
wright in Dramatic Mirror. I
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