THE MAN WHO WATCHED.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4248, 12 August 1882, Page 4

THE MAN WHO WATCHED.

One day recently, soon after the hour of noon, an individual who seemed to be laboring under considerable excitement entered a grocery store on Michigan Avenue, Detroit, and asked for a word with the proprietor. When the request had been granted, he explained —"I believe myself to be an injured husband, and I want to verify my suspicions by watching a house in the next street. This I can best do from the rear of your store. Have you any objection to my taking a seat at the back there by the open window ?" The grocer granted the favor, and the agitated stranger walked to the back, and took a seat on a box of cod fish and began his watch. His presence had been almost forgotten, when he returned to the front of the store with hasty steps and quivering voice, and said, "By heaven, I'll kill her ! I'es, I'll shoot her through the heart! " " Your wife ? " " Yes, my idolised Mary! I can no longer doubt her guilt, and I'll be a murderer in less than ten minutes ! " The grocer tried to detain him, but he broke away and rushed round the corner. Not hearing anything further of him for fully half an hour, the grocer began to investigate;, and he discovered that fourteen rolls of butter, a crock of lard, two hams, and other stuff had left the back end of the store by way of the window at which the watchful husband had been stationed.