Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — A Husband’s Cruel Crime. [ARTICLE]

A Husband’s Cruel Crime.

A Rhode Island lady who was in the habit of taking large quantities of the tincture of iron found great benefit from the medicine, but also incurred large bills at the apothecary’s, which her husband found it rather difficult to meet. Instead of brutally cutting off her medicinal supplies, this ingenious and humane man conceived the plan of manufacturing tincture of iron in the secrecy of his own woodshed. He therefore procured a paiL placed in it two pounds of old iron nails, three drahms of iron barrel-hoops and four scruples of miscellaneous iron. To this he added one gallon of aqua yuan, and stirred the mixture with a pitchfork three times a day for a week. At the end of that time hedrew off the water with a siphon, placed it in pint bottles and iabelea n “2TneL Fen. Use as directed.” Hk wife took his home-made tincture without any suspicion that it was not purchased at the apothecary’s and derived all the benefit from it which she had derived from the apothecary's own tincture. Although she had been Afflicted for several months with extreme weakness, her strength revived under the influence of the tincture to such an extent that at the end of three weeks, when she accidentally caught her husband in the act of filling her bottle from in the woodshed, she was able to lift a heavy pitchfork, and, after wielding it with mat vigor for ten minutes, to assist the hired man ia dragging her husband into the house, where she subsequently applied arnica and brown paper to nearly two-thirds of his entire •onsoa. —Chicago boasts of a woman that has hair seven feet long. Now, we are not a netting man, but we are ready to wager man who makes oar bdtter. _