Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — SORROW AND JOY. [ARTICLE]

SORROW AND JOY.

A. Long Island Woman Nearly Buries the Wrong Man. 69te Mourns Over the Supposed Body ol Her Husband—That Gentleman Appeared in the Flesh. Charles Brown and wife live in Long Island City. Charles is an engineer. Yesterday morning ho went to work as usual. A few hours later his -wife was told that the body of a drowned man resembling her husband had been found in Newton creek, near Hunter’s Point. She went to where the body lay, and identified it as he 1 husband. When she recovered from the shock she ordered the body carried toEw < home. Crepe was hung upon the door. At 7 'o’clock in the evening, when Mrs. Brown was weeping over the body of her husband, a step was heard, tho door opened and a man walked in. He saw the darkened room and wondered what had happened. “What does this mean?" h& cried. Mrs. Brown rushed from the chamber. As soon as she saw who the intruder was she fell fainting into his anus with a ery of “Thank God, my husband.” When she recovered there was joy in the Brown household despite the fact that the corpse of an unknown man lay dressed To 1 ’ the grave In the front parlor. Mr. Brown looked at the corpse and was surprised to see what a strong resemblance the body boro to himself.