Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1916 — DRAMA ENACTED ON DEPOT PLATFORM [ARTICLE]

DRAMA ENACTED ON DEPOT PLATFORM

Monticello Persons Saw Realistic Performance But Principals Departed Before Last Act. • The Monticello Journal relates the following story as having occurred there Wednesday morning. “The Papers,” which used to furnish the thrills for the good old melodramas, were the cause of an exciting scene in the Monon station this morning shortly before the arrival of the 9152 train. A man and woman and three suit cases were the leading characters of the drama. The man, who had a red mustache, instead of the black one usually flourished by villains, had possession of the papers, which the case. “If they Weren’t,” she said, she case. “If they weren’t,’ she said, she “wanted to know where they were.” She decided that she wished to investigate the suitcases and find out if the villain, wjio was also her husband, had made off with them. The husband, with the suavity common to villains, denied that the papers were not safe in his care, but refused to allow her to investigate the suitcase in which', the papers were supposed to be re-

dining. 1 A tussle fol 1 owed. The woman grabbed the Suitcase and the man grabbed the woman. She grew excited and said that he was trying to make people think she was crazy and that he was trying to lock her up and take the papers away from her. All the way up from Florida, she said, he had beaten her, and had treated her as if she was crazy. Several times she started to call the police, but the villain, with the haughty unconcern of his kind, refused to concede even one peep inside the suitcase. The train arrived befqre the thrilled and expectant audience was able to ascertain whether the villain would be confounded and the injured and oppressed heroine would be able to say tearfully in the last act, • “Thank Heaven, 1 have the papers."