"don't Know The Man!"

Cried Mrs. Foster when Her Husband Stabbed Him.

Was With A Stranger

The Husband Had Shadowed Them for Several Blocks Last Evening.

There was considerable excitement in the Third ward of Ypsilanti last evening. A woman stood in the middle of the street and cried and screamed until she had attracted quite a crowd. All that she said was "I don't know the man."

From the story of Fred Foster, of Florence st. , it is deducted that his wife was with a man and, that Foster caught them together. To Marshal Warner in the presence of an Argus reporter, Mr. Foster stated that for some time he had suspicioned the conduct of his wife and claims that that is the reason he left Dearborn and moved to Ypsilanti. Last evening when he came home he saw his wife dressing up as though she were preparing to leave the house for the evening. He slipped into the house and put on a slouch hat and an overcoat; he left the house and followed her. Soon after he met his wife with a strange man whom he immediately attacked. He threw him down and Foster struck him in the back with a knife. His wife went away crying "I don't know the man," and Foster went home where he has three children the two oldest being twins of between four and five and the youngest is two and a half years old.

Foster claims he stabbed the man, but who it was he could not say. He was tall and wore a light suit with golf stockings.

As a sequel to last night's stabbing affray, Mrs. Fred Foster this morning swore out a warrant against her husband charging him with assault and battery. He was arrested and brought before Justice Childs where he plead not guilty and his trial was set for tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. The wife claims her husband after stabbing the man with whom he found her on the street, turned his attention to her and struck her and beat her until she screamed for help. He denies this. An Argus reporter called on Mrs. Foster this morning to get her side of the story. Mr. Foster was at the home with her and she was getting ready to go to her parents' home in Dearborn. She had no hesitancy about talking. She said she went down the street on some errand and met the met the man with whom her husband found her and walked a short distance with him but she did not know who he was. When the reporter expressed surprise at her promenading with a stranger, she said he was a man whom she saw first on a train when her little boy was hurt and he expressed sympathy for the child and when she met him last night he inquired about the boy and during the conversation they walked on together and that they ware just ready to part when her husband come on the scene and stabbed the man in the back. She insisted that their relations were wholly innocent but expressed sympathy for the man and said he might be dead and then she broke down. She said she would be here tomorrow morning when the case was called. She declared this was the third time her husband had struck her. The second time she returned to him because he begged her to do so on his knees promising to never slap her again. She maintains that she has not done any improper thing and that she will not stand her husband's abuse any longer.