The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-29
TWO BRAVE WIVES.
A Couple of Tourists Congratulate
Each Other Because of 1t.

GdOn WHIST because OF IL.
A group of gentlemen was setting in
the DE Soto corridor last night. The con.
versation turned on cranks
"Did you read the report of the crank
last week that visited the white house."
asked onel
We'll read that" and he took from his
pocket newspaper clipping of the story
OF harmless crank who walked up TO
the executors Office carrying a big lock
which he said was the widows lock,
and insisted upon seeing the President,
and when refused admittanoe became
enraged and was taken in charge by
the police, the suDposition being that he
was lunatic who had recently escaped
from an insane asylum.
II believe" continued the gentleman,
THAT this man escaped from the same
asylum that my wife has full cause to re-
member WE'LL"
'How's that2" he was asked.
mot very long ago my wife arrived
very unexpectedly at friends house in
the country, and unfortunately for her,
the house was full of visitors and she
was compelled to sleep in the annex.
When She retired for the night she found
that the lock was so fastened that it
could not be opened from the inside.
There was large fire burning brightly
"ANhO0N EANAhS oCSOuo buOukuU
to the door she began to undress.
AS she did she heard the rumbling of
chairs and with it deep, heavy breathing
She's pretty plucky woman and didn't
scream. She moved instinctively to the
door, but her escape was cut off and to
get away by the high windows was i'm
possible. Presently big brute-for that
was what he was, with long matted hair
and unkempt beard rolled from under the
bed and half threw himself on the rug
in front of the fire. Imagine a woman in
such horrible position, cut off from as
sistauce, afraid to cry out, at the mercy
of such being. The brave little body,
the sweetest of all sweet creatures,
womanly woman, stood still and uttered
no sound until the first rays of the early
morning came through the blinds To
have moved, to have made the slightest
sound would have awakened the brute
and God only knows the result The
coachman on his way to the stable looked
up and she beckoned to him, making a
sign to keep quiet and pointed to man
near by. Her motions. were understood
and the men came into the room, bound
the fellow with ropes and took him
back to the lunatic asylum from
which he had escaped the night before
My wife is now in Florida convalescing
after a severe case ofnervous prostratiou. y
While this story was being told a num-
Der of gentlemen stopped to listen. After
congratulations had been extended to the
story teller for having such a plUcky
wife. one of the party said:
Your wife and mine seem to have had
similar experiences, but there was no
maniac in this case; rather an out and
out professional thief played the leading
role, which might have been a drama
tragedy or anything else. 1t was while
we were staying in Washington, and it
happened | had been called to Phila-
delphia on business. which kept
me over night. My wife told me The
story. She had gone to the theater with
party of friends, and when she went to
her room and locked the door she was
positive man was standing behind a
screen in front of the washstand. To
leave the room at once was impossible, as
she feared the man would knock her
down. She addressed, put her money
and 1ewelry on the bureau, and got into
bed. She didn't mind the loss of
the money or jewelry, and thought
by putting everything in plain view she
herself would not be molested She closed
her eyes, and very soon the fellow walked
over to the side of her bed and put his
head close to hers to see If she was asleep.
Not muscle of her face moved, and the
thief calmly walked over toAthe bureau,
put the stuff in his pocket, and walked
out of the room. With one leap she
sprang from her bed, rushed out in the
hall, regardless of her apparel, yelling
thief and murder at the top of her
voice. The man was collared in the cor
rider, and l came home to find my wife
dangerously ILL.,"
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