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Show I POOR REWARD FOR A WIFE'S DEVOTION H V1K7 iro"T Edna Crlsmon, colored, oalIc1 at tl10 county Jail ye-H ye-H y torday to sec her husband she Hi way readily admitted, hut H "when she was ready to go the doors refused to open and slio was told that j Blie would be entertained as a guest for 1 an Indcfinlto period. ; It was the natural desire on the part K! of a wife to regain he society of hor fj husband that led to Mrs. Crlsmon a detontion. She and lior husband, Fred, dwelt happily together In Franklin av-Hf av-Hf unuo until a few weeks ago, when Fred, l nbscnt-mlndcdiy, went through the 1 clothing of ono of his wife's callors and took $40 In lawful nionoy of the United 1 States. Shortly after this incident Hl Fred was put In Jail for tho period of mix. months. Mrs. Crlsmon did not want hor hus- band to stay In .1a.ll for such a long 1 tlmo, so she Invested In three pllablo little saws, which she gave him to saw Hj his way out. The Jailers heard of tho H saws almost as soon us thoy wero ln- troduccd Into the Jail, but waited pa-H! pa-H! tlently to oee what CrlsmoD would do with them. Hj For two woeks thero wae nothing do- Hl Jng. but yesterday Crismon voluntarily fli confessed that he hud tho Instruments and handed thorn over to Deputy Sher-iff Sher-iff Booth. He admlttbd to Mr. Booth 1 and Jailer Bell that they had been Hl smuggled In by his wife. He Insisted, H however, that he had received them 1 only the day before. I Early Jn the axtornoon .Mrs. crlsmon went to the 1all to see her husband. Ghe was readily admitted. After a visit of two or three hours she presented present-ed herself at the gate Intending to go Jhome. Then It was that Jailer Bell told hor that oho was under arrest. CrlEmon mado no attempt to utse his Faws, and, had he been very anxious to get away, he had opportunities to do so, for he was allowed to work about the Jail grounds as a truKty. He rewarded re-warded his wife for her devotion last Wednesday by giving her a black eye. The Jailer know nothing of this until yesterday. Noticing that ono of the woman's optics was swollen he asked her the cause. "Oh, that Is where Fred hit me when1 I was here "Wednesday," she explained. A complaint against 'the woman will probably be filed tomorrow. |