The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
WOMAN PLAYS SAD.
PRACTICAL JOKE
Mrs. Max Busch's Strategy to
Keep Husband at Home
Works MiserabIy.
HAS HERSELF HELD UP
And as a Consequence of This Little
JOSH a Los Angeles Woman
Is Sorry That She Per-
formed 1t.

Chicago Tribune: Instead of hiding
away and crying her eyes out because
her husband had planned a trip away
from her, Mrs. Max Basche, a beauti-
full Los Angeles woman, got up Il
scheme to prevent his leaving her. But
the consequences of this Josh have
been SO unexpectedly sensational thai
MIS-. Basche is now weeping her eyes
out because she did it.
This scheme Of the loving wife had
the desired effect and MI. .Basche did
not leave on his little journey. Instead
he has practically had to give up his
business and devote every effort and all
his time toward MXtricating his mis-
chievous better half from the trouble
into which her foolishness has plunged
her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Basche have only been
married a few months and We're just
moving into a cozy little dovecote when
this trouble came upon them. But
there is no cooling in the little house
now. There isn't time, for lawyers,
doctors, private detectives, policemen,
newspaper correspondents, photog-
raphers, and numerous curious minded
individuals are continually calling and
making inquiries.
Home Amid Laws Intricacies.
Because of Mrs, Basche's little joke
the law has wound its t%entacles tightly
about the little house wher the couple
expected to realize so much happiness,
and there is trouble and trouble and
trouble galore.
The Slst of the matter is that a man
was put behind the bars at the insti-
cation of Mrs. Basche for a crime
which he declares he never committed.
She accuses him Of robbery and bat
terry of the most brutal type. He says
ih1 4 nj ~, , Sob rn,,,ncta1 lt,,, 10 li,,I
and gag her and he acknowledges that
he did what she asked him to do AS
he was for a long time a valued and
trusted member of the city fire depart
ment, n as he possesses substantial
and convincing evidence that Mrs.
Basche made him an accessory to the
plot to brighten her husband and keep
him at home, public sympathy sides
with him in preference to the woman.
Mrs. Basche probably never dreamed
the story would leak out. She only
wanted to scare her uSban so he
would not leave her. But it die leak
out, for hen her husband came home
to dinner on the night of the fake
tragedy and found his beautiful wife
lying on the floor, bound and gagged,
and apparently unconscious he was
terrified and lost no time in informing
the police, so that they might help cap
ture the perpetrator of the crime.
Her Story of the Assault.
When Mrs. Basche returned ia con-
seriousness she was hysterical for sew
eral hours, and extreme nervousness
caused her to stutter pitifully as she
told the story OF the assault She has
proved herself to be an actress of con-
siderable ability and might have made
a fortune if she had gone on the stage.
The story she poured into the ear Of
her husband SimDlv thrilled Wit N tho
horrors and pathos of reality.
She said that when she returned
from a shopping trip at $50 O'Clock in
the afternoon and stepped off the car
near her home she noticed two tough
looking amp who eyed her in an i'm
pudent fashion. She went home and
was soon busily engaged in setting the
house to rights, for everything was
topsy-turvy from moving, She stepped
into the front room for something and
there she was amazed to md n of the
ramps she naa seer on me street cor
ner. he leered at her in the most
fendlsh fashion.