Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — The Man Downstairs. [ARTICLE]

The Man Downstairs.

“This must stop right here!” said Henry Grimthorp. as he put one foot out of bed. ad began reaching around in the dark for his trousers. “Henry,” his wife whispered, “please don’t be foolish. Lie down and be quiet’’ “No,” he snarled, “I’m going downstairs and I’m going to give that young man down there a drubbing that’ll make :him want to keep as far away as possible from this house in the future. Here it is after 12 o’clock, and ” “Henry,” Mrs. Grimsthorp pleaded, “stop. Don't go down there, please ” But he had found his trousers, and, ignoring his wife’s words, he hurried into the hall. Then he stole downstairs through the dark, and in about half a minute there were sounds of falling stands and tumbling chairs and shaking chandeliers. The old man had grasped his antagonist around the neck right at the start, and toon had him choked into submission. Then he tied the fellow full of knots, humped his head against the newel post several times, and finally threw him down the front steps. When he got baduoipstairs his wife and daughter, pale and quaking with terror, flung themselves upon his breast. “What’s the Hutt er?” he demanded. “That was a burglar!” they cried. “Heavens!” he gasped, getting sick at the stomach: "why didn’t you tell me before? I thought it was ■ Fannie’s beau.”— Chicago Record-Herald.