The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1889-04-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MAESTEG O.W.R Cynuner  "1 was pretty wide awake uow, and pretty sober, too, I can tell 3 on. When. a man's in danger it's wonderful how the dtiuk goes out of his brain. I heard my missus electing up that stair again, but before she'd gut to the Lop ot it I was out of bed and had the rope oil my neck. Then I looked about the room for Inc hetiviem,t thing I could find. My eye fell ou the stove. it emmmsmi't quite up to my Wn weight, but still it a a big I gish burden, as found when 1 tried t m ;lit it on Le the bed. I did manage it, though, and titan 1 slipped the noose round its neck as ettinium tame as it had been round mine. Then 1 sat down on the edge of the bed to watch proceedings. In a minute or so I heard my youug woman walking ova. head, and then the rope began to tigta en. She was drawing it up. When she began to feel the weight of the stove she pulled blower, and 1 them:littler a minute she was going to give in. But she was poweiful strong, It was as much as I could do to seep her in order, and she'd have knocked down three el your size without knowing she'd done it. :Ale was in rear earnest, and Site held on till she had gut the stove raim3ed a loot or so, and then I suppose she thought job was done. So she fixed We rope rotted the beam and tied it theme, ,endiug the flakes of plaster ratting down jute the room with the movement of her hand, and left me—that is, the stove—at-swinging. " 6he'o been pretty olever up to this, but now she coinmeaced to boug.e. That's the weak point of women—they never do anything tttoroughly they always neglect, state trine that would jest make the dimmerecte kte eon sw.tt.e-s and. failure. Thai's what may wile did. 11 she had had ammy sense she would have conic and had a look at me, to be sure she was a wild, r afore she went and anuouuced her forlorn couddion to her neighbours. It woual have been better tor her, pour soul ! fur if she bad come in I aloud hive given her a adult eye, Cr somethiug of tne sort, JIM to wean her not to be up to any of them tucks again, anti that would have been the end of it. But she went straight out so 1 was told—said her husband had shut himself up in his bedroom, m.d she know he had committed suicide. Suicide, indeed! " soda collected a dozen or so of friends,who all rusted in to nee what was up. The door of the room was locked, sure enough; but the key was in her pocket. Two or three stood deuating west to do; and I heard my missus beseeching them—and sobbing al the white, the crulikydill to break in the dour,aud they might be in time to save her dear husband that was we from an untimely death, and being buried at the cross-roads. Aft ! she wor a cunning one, that wife of mine !" " Weil, they done it —smashed in the door, burst It right oil the luck, cud I oared into the room—the missus at the head of them with her apron at her oyes. And you never saw folks so ila,Libergasted, and so disappointed, 130' as they were when they saw mo sitting quiet anti calm on the edge of the bed, and the stLive a hanging above it. "'Lathes and gents,' says 1, 'anti you, my beloved wile, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I ain't disposed to be turned into a parrygrarf for the newspapers just yet awhile, I ain't tired of life, and I don't mein to quit it till I've paid you, my Sarah Jane, for this hoe little bit of tun. lon ain't going to be my discouserlate widder yet awhile, and you may than li your stars if it isn't me as has to Mourn your loss.' "Anti with that I would have gone for her, but some of them called out that it was u perlice business, and kept me from settling things straight away. be they bound her over to keep the paw, and find sureties tor her good behaviour ; and; and as she couldn't get none, they sent her to gaol. She'll be out in a month now, they I don't thiuk she'll look me up when sto_'s tree. If she does, won't have nothing to do with her, for you see she has got a little practice in the killing line, and next time she tried to du tom me, rho mightn't make a bungle of it."—Spare