WRONG WIFE!

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 20 May 1922, Page 4

WRONG WIFE!

THE LURE OF THE LATCH KEY. Hobart, May 9. Even in Hobart remarkable tilings occasionally happen. A citizen, who had been seeing the Sunday in too enthusiastically, ad who was staggering home long after midnight, with but a vague idea of the location of his suburban residence, was surprised to see a latchkey in the door. He was not accustomed to this kindly care. He turned the key carefully without waking anybody, took off his boots, and wound them up on the bottom step of the stairs, crept laboriously to the bedroom, opened ' the door without making undue noice, blew out his match, undressed himself in the dark, and turned into bed with a thankful sigh alongside his slumbering wife. WHAT HIS SNORES DID. Unfortunately ho snored in lis sleep. Ho was angrily and violently aroused in the early bourse by the occupant of thp 'bed—a man 1 And as dazed by this rude awakening bo glanced around, ho found that there was another occupant in the bed, the stranger’s wife! The poor man, attracted by the latch key, had entered, and mistaken the house for his own. Still suffering from the effect of his late night the intruder wanted to know by all that was holy why he had beon so rudely aroused from his wellearnod Sunday rest. Meanwhile the husband had sr i ght for a constable, who managed, after considerable difficulty, to convince tl>e intruder that he was not in his own home, his own bed, or with his own wife. He was at first inclined to take the other man as alcoholic illusion and muttered something about ectoplasm. He explained that ho had no recollection of what had happened after 9.30 on the preceding night. He was still pondering over the puzzle when he woke up at the Police Court to hear the Magistrate recording a conviction against him.