Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1892 — JUDGE AND HUSBAND. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE AND HUSBAND.

The Queer Part an lowa Citizen Played with His WifeAt Juatice of the Peace He Ordered Her Arrest and Attempted to Commit j Her to an Asylum. A queer story comes from lowa, received 1 Friday. A farmer, Frank Greenwait, who lives in Perryot township, Plymouth county, had occasional quarrels with his wife. Green wait is both justice of the peace and school director. The marm’ boards at his house, and in bad weather he has often toqk her home in his bug. ago a neighborhood wag suggested to Mrs. Greenwait that the old gentleman had been paying too much attention to the “school marm.”' There was the usual in which Greenwait was badly worsted. The next day Greenwait, in his capacity as justice of the peace, deputized his hired hand, WmOtto, to arrest his wife and bring her before him for trial. After a brief examination he ordered her to bo conveyed to the county jail at Lemars, twenty miles distant, and confined there pending an examination for insanity. Otto was again deputized to execute the order. On her way to Jail MrS. Greenwait whipped her custodian and started back home. She had to walk fifteen was found by neighbors in the’/moraing, scratched and bruised and utterly exhausted. John Campbel] an old jjSident of College Corner, was troubled uy a mole in his front yard, which himself and grandson undertook to capture. Whilo^digging for the “varment,” Mr. Campbell uncovered a tin can, securely sealed, which, upon being opened, disclosed s9Qf> in gold coin, i The scene of the Monon wreck, near Crawfordsville, is said to be haunted. The superstitious'of the neighborhood imagine all 3wts of ghostly/;fleets, and will not ventute, near after nightfall. iJKJiII has been iritroduwd in thq New York Legislature to repeal the imprisonment fur debt law.