Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1881 — The Sold Wife. [ARTICLE]

The Sold Wife.

A New York reporter interviewed Mrs. Lauter, the woman who was sold by her husband to a lover for ou6 dollar. She seemed a little reticent at first but as her troubles had been fermenting for some time, she threw off a narrative that was spicy, if ndt e.<q>ecialiy true. “I am.” replied the purchasable fair, “about 32 years of age, and I love Jansen. My husband I used to like, but to tell* the truth. I got a little tired of him, and that’s the reason Why I shook him. He is better off than Jansen, but what does that mean? I love the one and despise the other. When I first saw Jansen I loved him, and I have doted on him ever since. Havo you ever seen him? No. Well, he is tall and red-haired, with blue eyes and a brown beard. His nose is a little inclined to be rosy, but of such a delicate tint that one wouldn’t notice it in a dark room. He is very handsome,and such a jolly fellow. Why, when I didn’t know him much more than a week he took me into his arms and kissed me on the end of my nose. Of course, I struggled and slapped his face, but, oh! how I liked "it. 1 used to go out with him some, but we always behaved ourselves. He used to buy me ice cream, and I used to make him neckties. But at last Lauter suspected something and commenced to scold me. Of course this was something I would not stand,no wife should.and I slapped bis face and told bion I would do as I pleased. He was fool enough to get mad at this, so when Jansen came a few days after our trip to the country, he tackled him and called him lots of bad names. After a while he cooled down, and in a sort of sneering way said that I was worth so much that?l oughtVto be sold, and added that he would sell out cheap. Jansen said he would give fifty cents for me, and hauler said he would take one dollar. Janseu agreed and a bill of sale was drawn up. Here it is: "New York, August 3d, 1881.—I, Ed ward A. Lauter, of the city, county and State of New York, do dispose of all my right, title and interest in the woman known as my wife, to Ferdinand Jansen, of the said city, county and Btate of New York, for the sum and in consideration of sl, lawful money of The United States of Amer-

ca.

E DWARD LAUTER.

“This I am going to keep and make him sweat for what he has done. Sell me out, will he! Weil, if I get my fingers in his hair he’ll have a bald spot where I struck. He is—ugh! I couldn’t find words enough to describe him. Ob! yes; I shall live with Jansen now an<i never go back to Lauter. I’m sold —the wretch; but let me catch him.”