Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-03-03 | Page 2 | Hanged His Wife Just for Fun

i- i I CHANGED HIS WIFE JUST FOR FUN FUNt t Illinois Mans Man's Practical Joke at a l t Christening Nearly Results Fatally OCK ISLAND Iii March 3 A A practical Joke on his wife at christening party in the southwestern o of this city nearly ended fatally for the woman The Joker a large and erful man while In a happy frame of mind from the frequency with which had drunk the new newly ly named Infants Infant's picked up his wife and carried i rout out of the house Finding a rope he tied one end around r Ae womans woman's neck threw the other end the limb of a tree and then pulled wife from the ground Fastening The loose e cl of the rope he returned via the party hb run fun was too good to keep and confided it to a friend telling him Khe he had played flayed a a. joke on his wife vile An resulted In the woman be- be cut dov down n Just In tim to prevent death by She was unconscious for time