Show Spies on Wife and Gets In Trouble Des MoInes Attempting to chastise his wife whom he had followed fol-lowed In the dissulse of a negro El well Smith was set upon by a number num-ber of white men who believed It was a nergro assaulting a woman and nearly lynched him before ho could explain tho ruse Smith received a hint that his wife had a clandestine appointment lIe blacked his taco I with burned cork and followed her The wife denies having had any ap polnfment and says she only stopped a white man to tell him she was being be-Ing followed by a negro |