Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-01-10
TAKEN FOR A BURGLAR.
Shs Nice Warm Reception . Polite Hus-
band Got From n Deaf One.

Shs Nice Warm Reception Polite Hus-
band Got From n Deaf One.
There might have been a tragic ending
20 the domestic felicity Of young married
couple who occupy a fat In Clinton ave
nue., Brooklyn, few days ago, had IL not
been for the Intervention Of their neigh
bors. The young couple have been mar
ried only a month and took possession OF
their Cat only two weeks ago. They knew
little about their neighbors.
Last Wednesday evening just about bed
time there was so violent ringing OF the
electric doorbell in the flat opposite that
the newly welded young man decided that
something was wrong. He opened the
door, and finding nothing but darkness In
the hallway raped on tho door Of the fiat
where the ringing was going on. There
was no response, and the young man, de-
string 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.
"Oh, thank you," sho exclaimed. "I
thought / never should get in. My hus-
band up stairs is a little hard Of hearing.
and went out shopping and left my keys
behind"
No trouble at all, assure you" suave-
ly 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 elder
ly woman as they walked up the stairs.
When she reached tho landing where
her fiat was, she knocked at the door, and
now difficulty presented itself. She
could not get in there either, and then she
said her husband must have gone out.
The newly welded pair stood in the door
way of their fat helpless spectators of her
predicament. The young man raped
fercely on tho door, but there was no re-
sponse, and then they began trying keys.
Mono was found to fit.
"How embarrassing! I'm so sorry to
trouble you, but now that 1 think OF 1t
can get In by the door leading to the fire
escape. l left that open when was at
the icebox," 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 don't know how
can thank you," murmured the elderly
woman.
The young man stepped briskly enough
through the private hallway of his fat to
the fire escape, while the elderly woman
and the young wife chatted in the hall
way. They heard the young man climb
over the railing which divided the fire es-
cape in the rear, and both smiled reassur-
ingly as they heard the fire escape door
open. The story Of what occurred after
this was gathered from comparison OF
notes by the young married man and the
husband of the elderly woman, who was a
little hard Of hearing.
The young man found the elderly wom-
| ans husband sitting at table in the din
ing room, into which the fire escape door
opened. He had an open book in his LAP
and was apparently in deep reverie. The
young man made considerable noise in en-.
tering and coughed to attract the hard Of
hearing mans attention. The latter made
no movement, and the young man, as
suming his most genial smile, walked uI
to him. The elderly man was sitting with
his back toward the young man, who had
prepared himself with nice little speech
of introduction. No sooner had he touched
the hard of hearing mans shoulder thar
4 there was a roar, and the young mar
found himself clutched with grip thai
threatened to crush all the breath out o.
him. The hard of hearing man yelled
"HelpI PoliceP' at the top of his voice,
while the two women in the hallway al
most collapsed when they heard the noise
He was an active young man and man
aged by ezerting all his strength to squirn
out of the grasp of his captor and rar
through the fat The hard OF hearing
man raced after him, and the young maj
jumped into tho bathroom, the door O
which was conveniently open. Then 1t be
came his turn to yell for assistance, for hi
pursuer was making frantic efforts tt
open the door and was still yelling at th
top of his voice.
The shouts Of the men in the fiat ant
the screams of the women in the hall sool
aroused the entire house, and the occu
pants came tumbling out of their room
in various stages of undress. The tenant
thought the fat was a6re, and some o
them ran into the street. Others gathere'
around the two women in the hallway ant
tried to learn from their excited speecl
what the trouble was. In the midst of l
all the hard of hearing man opened tn
hall door and was dumfounded at the sigh
OF his fainting wife and the assemblies
tenants
The wife revived when she saw hin
safe, and then she tried to explain wha
had occurred. The bathroom door wa
opened after considerable shouting, an
the young man was found about to dro
down the window of the airshaft 1t too
Is minutes to explain the circumstance
all around,-Sew York Sun.
INCIDENTS OF ARMY LIFE.
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