Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1875 — A Brave Woman. [ARTICLE]

A Brave Woman.

Mrs. Morgan Calvert, a young widow who lives with her brother two miles from this place, was left alone in her isolated house for several day-s last week. On I hursday afternoon a rough fellow called at the house and, after asking Mrs. Calvert many questions, begged for a supper and a night’s lodgings. He was refused. Thereupon he went away muttering to himself. A little later Mrs. Calvert was obliged to go out, and on her return she saw a man crouching behind the door between the sitting-room and her bed-room. He did not seem to see her and she saw him only through a narrow crack. There were fire-arms in the house and Mrs. Calvert knew how to use them. Without an outcry she went up-stairs and got a revolver and, hiding it under her apron, started boldly for the room in which the tramp was lurking. As Mrs. Calvert approached the door the man threw it open suddenly, jumped out and struck her in the face. Recovering quickly from the blow, she drew her pistol, upon seeing which the tramp turned to flee. She fired once and wounded him and then started to pursue him. As he disappeared around the house she fired again, at which he turned about and cried, “Don’t shoot again, woman; I am a dead man now.” As he spoke he staggered against a fence and then fell. He begged for aid and Mrs. Calvert arranged him in a comfortaable position, after which she started for a physician. As she approached the house the tramp who had first called upon her rushed out and escaped; and under the " great excitement she felftfainting near the roadside. Two hours later she was discovered by friends, who listened to her story and went to find the man whom she had wounded. He was lying dead.— Milansport (Pa.) Dispatch to A. T. Sun.

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