The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
SOME QUEER WAYS OF
INFLICTING VENGEANCE
From Pearson's Weekly.

From Pearson's Weekly.
@HERE was much ado in a provin-
ciaI town a year or two ago when
Mrs. Fielding the wife of the lead
ing draper, came across a packet of her
husbands billet-doux accidentally drop
ped by one of the young lady assist
ants.
As Mrs. Fielding was emphatically not
a woman to be trlfed WITH naturally the
young lady had at once to go" Nor was
poor Fielding long in following.
The next step taken by the energetic
Mrs Fielding was to exhibit all the letters
in the shop window. This caused such a
crowd to assemble that the police had to
threaten the lady with a summons Cor
obstruction
Eventually. however. a sadder and
wiser Mr.. Fielding was readmitted into his
own house and his wlfe'e good graces.
Another curious act of revenge-this
time on the part of a barber-was brought
to light recently in the course of a county
court action by hairdressers assist
ant named Pye, who was suing for wages
in lieu of notice.
IT was proved by the assistant that the
reason of his dismissal was his refusal
to "rough-shave' a certain customer
whom his employer regarding with dis
favor as being guilty OF exchanging
smiles with his dhe employers Wife
Not exactly caring to create scandal
by forbidding the customer his shop, the
barber had instructed his assistants to
shave the gentleman in a manner that
would insure his keeping away after few
experiences.
The employer had to pay Pye his wages.
A French method of taking it out OF
an opponent has been invented by the
Marquis de Dion the well known manu-
facturer of automobiles, and prominent
member of the French cahmber of depu-
ties.
The MARQUIS got annoyed with the
French government, and in order to em-
barrass 1t as much possible, recently
advised his constituents in Brittany to
withdraw their deposits from the National
Savings bank Large Withdrawals from
the savings bank took place in conse-
quence and the fact has a direct bearing
on the French national finances today.
But this was nothing to the elaboration
with which a German boy of IA named
Alfred Schimpf set about a scheme of
revenge on an old Berlin gentleman
named Bitten. who had complained OF
the boy annoying him.
The boy bought an india rubber stamp
with the signature "Dr. Lang upon II,
and appended this name to a large num-
Der Of open postcards full of gross in
suits to Herr Bitten.
Soon afterward Herr Bitten was sum-
moned by the district court to answer to
an action instituted by DIR. Lang to re-
cover a debt of IA shlllings, but when he
appeared on the appointed day the plain
tiff was not there.
Three days an ambulance drew up ana
four stalwart men entered Herr Blitzens
apartments and placed him by main force
in the ambulance for conveyance to the
nearest lunatic asylum, whence, of course,
he was liberated when the doctors dis
covered him to be perfectly sane.
Elegant carriages afterward drove up to
take Herr and Frau Bitten for drives.
THE bow afterward sent a band of music
70 nlay before the house at o'clock in
the morning.
The climax was reached when hearse.
drawn by six horses and followed by eight
mourning coaches appeared before Her,
Fslitzen's house. They had been ordered
bv .Dr. Lang for Herr Blitzen's fu-
neral.
Nor would the young villain have been
discovered and sent to jail had he not
BETRAYED himself by Boosting of his deeds
to another lad.
A milkman named Winpenny was also