Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1912 — FATHER WAS WIFE’S ADMIRER [ARTICLE]

FATHER WAS WIFE’S ADMIRER

Son Attacks and Beats Parent Who r Comes to Visit Him After Fifteen Years of Separation. San Bernardino, Cal. —When Oscar Johnson was about to enter his hom«( he saw a stranger embracing his wife. The husband seized a brick, rushed Into the house and Btruck the strangei* such a tremendous blow on the head that he was knocked unconscious and may have suffered a fractured skull. Then Johnson investigated and found that the unconscious man was his own father, O. W. Johnson, of Peoria, 111., whom he had not seen for* fifteen years, and who had conje here to surprise his son with a visit. —When v saw her busband strike his fathei* she went Into hysterics and became threatened with complete 'nervous breakdown. She declared she would seek a divorce from a husband whose Jealousy was so unreasonable and whose suspicions were so unfounded. Johnson said he would take a second look before he leaped again, and| sought a physician, who probably will attend both the wife and father for some time.