Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1916 — Fowler Wives Worried When Husbands Faked Arrest. [ARTICLE]

Fowler Wives Worried When Husbands Faked Arrest.

Remington Press. A bunch of four fellows, all married men, including one John McCollough, took a notion one night recently, to worry their good wives’ a bit. They had the sheriff take all four of them to Jail, and lock them up .and-then telephone to their wives and tell each tKat her husband was arrested and locked—up in jail, and fkxr them to come at once and to bring their check books. Of course each Wife responded and such a carrying on was never known at the Fowler jail before. The poor dears nearly wept their pretty eyes out over the sad plight of her husband and the attendant disgrace of his being arrested. The prisoners let them go to it until they had had all the fun they wanted out of the comedy, before they told them that it was only a joke. If- these women don’t make the men dough up a mighty good feed or a bonnet to square the account, we will miss our guess. •