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Evening Star, Issue 4115, 5 May 1876, Page 4

A young husband planned to scare h : s wife, with whom he had quarrelled. He went into the wool shed, fired off a gun, arranged himself on the ground as a bogus corpse, and Waited for her to com* out ana faint at sight of him. She didn’t come, however, and he woe Compelled to sneak into the bouse and bear ner say, “ i di u.’t scare wor hj a cent, did i a Sacramento detective dressed himself in rags, and fell in a disreputable street, as though i elplessly drunk as a device to catch a gang of thieves, who, he thought, would attempt torch him. What he did catch was a sound whipping from a real bummer who tripped upon ma body.