The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-27
A DEAF Man IN A FLAT.
The Trouble He Caused When His Wife
Went Out Forgetting Her Keys.
From the New York Sun.


There might have been a tragic ending
to the domestic felicity of a young mar
ried couple who occupy a fiat in Clinton
avenue, Brooklyn. a few days ago, had
it not been for the intervention Of their
neiShbors. The young couple have been
married only a month, and took possession
of their fiat only two weeks ago. They
knew little about their neighbors
Last Wednesday evening, just about bed
time. there was so violent a ringing of
the electric door bell in the fat opposite
that the newly welded young man de-
cided that something was wrong. He
opened the door, and finding nothing but
darkness in the hallway, raped on the
door of the fiat where the ringing was
going on. There was no response, and
the young man desiring to be neighborly,
went down stairs to admit the person who
was doing the ringing. He unlocked the
outer door, and found there an elderly
woman freighted with packages.
ooh, thank you" she exclaimed. Il
thought / never should get in. My hus-
band up stairs is a little hard of hearing,
and l went out shopping and left my
keys behind"
mo trouble at all, assure" you suavely
replied the young man. leading the way
up stairs with lighted taper.
II left my husband reading, and he
must have dropped asleep, else | am sure
he would have heard me-" said the eld-
erly woman they walked up the stairs.
When she reached the landing where
her fiat was she knocked at the door,
and new difficulty presented itself. She
could not get in there either, and then
she said that her husband must have
gone out. The newly welded pair stood
in the doorway of their fiat. helpless spec
tators of her predicament. The young
man raped fiercely on the door, but
there was no response, and then they
began trying keys. None was found TO
fit.
How embarrassing I'm so sorry TO
trouble you, but now that I think of 1t,
l can get in by the door leading to the
fire escape. left that open when l was
the ice box" said the elderly woman.
The young man looked at her size, which
was considerable. and smiling, thought
of the five-foot railing she would have
to climb to get to that fire escape door.
IF you will allow me. madam. I'll get
over and let you in," he volunteered.
"Oh, you are so kind l don't know how
l can thank you,'' murmured the elderly
woman.
The young man stepped briskly through
the private hall way of his fiat to the
fire escape, while the elderly woman and
the young wife chatted in the hallway.
They heard the young man climb over
the railing which divided the fire escape
in the rear. and both smiled reassuringly
as they heard the fire-escae door oepn.
The story of what occurred after this
was gathered from a comparison of notes
by the young married man and the hus-
band of the elderly woman, who was a
little hard of hearing.
The young man found the elderly
womans husband sitting at a table in
the dining room, into which the frees
cape door opened. He had an open book
in his lap and was apparently in a deep
revcrie. The young man made consider
able noise in entering. and coughed to
attract the hard-of-hearlng mans atten-
ton. The latter made no movement, and
the young man assuming his most ge-
NAL smile, walked up to him. The elderly
man was sitting with his back toward
the young man who had prepared him
self with a nice little speech of introduce
ton. No sooner had he touched the hard
of-hearing mans shoulder than there was
a roar, and the young man found him
self clutched with a grip that threat
ened to crush all the breath out of him.
The hard-of-hearing man yelled Help!
Police!" at the top of his voice, while
the two women in the hallway almost
collapsed when they heard the noise.
He was an active young man, and man
aged. by exerting all his strength, to
squirm out of the grasp of his captor,
and ran through the fiat. The hard-of-
hearing man raced after him, and the
young man jumped into the bathroom.
the door of which was conveniently
open. Then it became his turn to yell
or assistance, for his pursuer was making
frantic efforts to open the door, and was
still yelling at the top of his voice.
The shouts of the men in the fiat and
the screams of the women in the hall
soon aroused the entire house. and the
occupants came tumbling out of their
rooms in various stages of undress. The
tenants thought the fiat was afire. and
some of them ran into the street. Others
gathered around the two women in the
hallway. and tried to learn from their ex-
cited speech what the trouble was. In
the midst of il all the hard-of-hearing
man opened the hall door and was dumb
founded at the sight of his fainting wife
and the assembled tenants.
The wife revived when she saw him
safe. and then she tried to explain what
had occurred. The bathroom door was
opened after considerable shouting, and
the young man was found about to drop
down the window of the airshaft. 1t took
fifteen minutes to explain the circum-
stances all around. -4 -