Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1877 — A Dangerous Wife to Joke With. [ARTICLE]

A Dangerous Wife to Joke With.

The Fort Worth (Tex.) Democrat says: “ Marshal Courtright, of this town, thought of joking his wife. Arriving at home at a late hour he entered the front gate, carefully closing it. Cautiously groping his way thither, what was his surprise to see the right hand of his wife lying on the sill of the window. On her fingers she had two gold rings, one of which he proceeded to take off. It being rather loose, ho experienced but little trouble, aud succeeded iu the operation without waking her up. The remaining ring was a much tighter fit, and, in his effort to extricate it, his wife awoke, finding her hand grasped from without by some one whom she at once concluded was a robber. Quickly pulling her hand away, she was about to scream, but, thinking of a convenifent six-shooter under her pillow, she again placed her ‘jeweled hand’ on the sill, which was grasped by the supposed burglar, and with the other she quietly reached for the pistol, and, rising suddenly, brought it to bear on her husband ; but for his presence of mind in quickly calling her she would have shot him dead. Mrs. Courtright displayed great presence of mind, fortitude and courage, and the Marshal should be proud of possessing a wife so fearless and brave. His narrow escape has completely cured him of any further desire to play the role of midnight robber.”