Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — The Hnsband’s Strata gem. [ARTICLE]

The Hnsband’s Strata gem.

Novoe Vrcmya. An inhabitant of Vqto, in Finland, named Sellquist, who for a long time past has been living on bad terms with his wife, had lately a narrow escape from being poisoped by her. She called at a chemist’s and asked for some rat poison. As these creatures are very rarely seen in that neighborhood, the chemist had his suspicions aroused and, gave the woman a perfectly' harmless drug. On second thoughts he decided to mention the matter to the Ifiisband, and requested him to say nothing about it to his wife. In the evening, as she was preparing the porridge, the man kept a watchful eye on her movements.and noticed that she scattered something out of a paper into that saucepan. When the porridge was]ready hesatdown to the tableand began to. eat. After awhile he got up in great excitement, paced up and down the room, and at last fell fainting on the floor. Th ; s was what the woman expected. Sne now pulled down a rope through a hole in the ceiling with a noose, which she placed round her husband’s neck, where upon she ran upstairs into the garret in order to pull up the rope and hang her husband in that fashion. Meantime the husband got up and tied a few chairs to the rope. e The wife did not return to the room, as she dreaded the sight, but went out in the village to raise an alarm, ing that her husband had hangea himself In her absence. When she came back with a host of neighbors, I and crocodile tears in her eyes.there was her husband sitting at the table, 1 laughing till his sides ached. The I chairs were still dangling on the rope.