Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1892 — OUT FOR VENGEANCE. [ARTICLE]

OUT FOR VENGEANCE.

A Deserted Husband and Hi* Gun. Detroit Free Press. “On a train, down in Indiana recently,” said the drummer. “I was on a crowded passenger coach, and next to me sat a wild eyed looking man with what I thought was a gun in his pocket. He twisted around nervously for a few minutes after I had sat down beside him, and at last he turned to me: “ ‘ You see that woman up that in the forrud eend of the car,' he said, ‘that un with the green dress on and a slim feller settia' along side of her?’ “She sat about ten seats ahead of of us and was in reality a conspicuous objects, so I could not deny seeing her. I nodded and he went on: “ ‘Well, she’s my wife.’ “ ‘Why aren't you up there with her.” t “ ‘She’s ’lopin’.’ he said briefly. “ ‘You mean she is running away with the mau beside her.’ “ ‘ That’s the size of it, mister.' “ ‘Well, now that you have caught the guilty couple I suppose you will punish them severely?’ “He pulled his revolverout, and I became exceedingly nervous. “That looks like it might be enough, don’t it?’ he asked, with an ugly glitter in his eye. “I didn’t know whether to call the conductor or what to do. “‘You will do nothing desperate on the car in the presence of the passengers!’ I said, soothingly. “He looked at his revolver and tried the hammer once or twice. “‘You think this might settle it, don’t you?’ he repeated. “As it was about two feet long with a hole in it like a tunnel, Icc uld not doubt its efficacy, and said so. “ ‘l’m goin’ to have vengeance,' he said in a hoarse whisper, ‘on that cuss, and he’ll never forget it.’ “ ‘With that?’ I asked, nodding at the gun. \ ‘“No,” he said, putting it away** much to my relief, but with somethin’a heap sight worse,’ and I expected to see him draw a knife with a saw edge and hooks on the point. “ ‘What are you going to do?’ I inquired with a faint hope that the conductor would come along in time to prevent a panic and bloodshed. “ ‘Let him have her,' he said with such a powerful sense of satisfied justice in his tone that I almost laughed right in his face. “He got off at the next station without having been seen by the runaways, and when I got a look at the woman and heard her voice I was almost sorry I had not let the merciful revolver do its work."