Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — A Wife’s Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Wife’s Mistake.

A woman at Stockton, Cal., who had a drunken husband, was waiting late at night for him to come home. The lamp was in her bedroom and she was in the parlor. Hearing a noise outside, as if a man who was drunk was trying to find the gate, she went out, and sure enough a drunken man was there. She helped him into the parlor, as she had been used to doing, and placed him carefully on the lounge. After a hard struggle she got his coat and vest off, and then pulled at the boots (as she thought they were), but they would not come off. At length she felt up about the ankles and found that the man had shoes on—something that her husband never wore, Striking a light she saw he was a stranger,