Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1878 — The Perils of Courting. [ARTICLE]

The Perils of Courting.

While one of the daughters of Mr. L. D. Brown, of Jersey City, was entertaining a gentleman visitor in the back parlor of her father’s residence, a few nights ago, a police officer threw open the rear window, and, dashing into the room, seized the visitor and endeavored to drag him out of the house. Miss Brown screamed with terror, and fell on the floor in a faint, astonished, as she very naturally might be, at this sudden apparatiou. The noise of her fall attracted members of the family in the dining-room, and they hastened up stairs to the parlor in time to witness the excited and fnrious officer dragging and clubbing their guest. Mr. Brown interfered, and demanded to know the cause of this extraordinary conduct. The officer replied, “ I’m after a burglar.” When informed that the young man was not a burglar the enterprising policeman stammered apologies, and explained. as best he could that a burglar had fled in the direction of Brown’s back yard, and that he had mistaken the gentleman visitor for the object of his search. —New York Sun.