Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — The Devil gets his Due. [ARTICLE]

The Devil gets his Due.

On Sunday,the loth alt., in tbu town of Maple Giove, in Manitowoc county, a singular and fata! occurrence took place. It being Sunday the people of the neighborhood had generally gone to church, leaving, as is the custom, only one or two of a family at home to guard the premises. At the house when it occurred, only a years old was at home. *A man went to the house completely. enveloped in a beef hide, with horns, tail and all complete, and so tilted that nothing else could be seen. It was known in the neighborhood tlat the occupants of this house had monev, and there was thereat the time about 9200 on the premises. .The man disguised in the hide told the boy that he was the devil, and that he had come after his money, and that the boy must give it to him. The boy answered that he would not give the money. The devil then told the bov that he would kill him if he did not bring out the money. The boy then stepped into the house, as if he was about to comply, but instead of bringing the money he brought a gun and shot the mail dead. The boy then ran to the nearest neighbor, and titidlitg only a woman there, told' her that he had shot the devil. The woman went with the boy, and louud that Uie devil whom the boy had shot was her husbaud.—6’ree.* lk<y Advw cate.