The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-11-17
From the ". o. C'e@ees,f, OFT 5ht
A Brave BOy--Row Jimmy Managed
RnhEer.


4 month or two since, the Office of DIR.
Dostie, dentlst, on Baronne street, near Canal,
was visited and unavaiiabIy tried by bur
glars. The Doctor has n youthful assistant
an Irish boy, named James, about fifteen
years old, who does all that boy can do for
dentist, and who sleeps in back room of
the Office, which consists of three rooms on
the ground floor, with a small but highly
fenced-in back yard, the gate of which opens
on side alley opening from Baronne street.
After the above burglarious attempt, The
Doctor, finding that Jimmy was willing to
sleep as usual in his usual bed, and willing
to shoot any one who might disturb his
slumber, presented Jimmy with a pair of
Derringer pistols. Jimmy, not apprehend-
ing visit from the rear of the Office, put the
pistols in a drawer of wash-stand, in the
middle room, where he kept them until
about four o'clock on Thursday morning.
What took place at that hour we will give
in Jimmy own language, as he modestly
related to US yesterday:
81 was woke up by noise in the back
yard. There was ladder standing in the
corner; heard noise like some one COM
ing down il, and I held my breath. could
hear a man step softly like he had slippers
on he stopped every step TO listen. The
door was not fastened or even shut. lie
come into the room softly, and come to the
bed and raised the bar and took look at
me. could just see it was a man, and he
had big knife in his hand; / could see it
by the light coming in at the door. ! pre-
tended to be asleep, but | was wide awake,
and waiting patiently to see what he would
do He struck light with a piece of can
die and match he took from his pocket
When he got the camille lit, he come to the
he'd aud raised the bar aud took another
look at me; this time shut my eyes and
5reathed like I was asleep. He had bis knife
in his hand all the time; it was a great big
knife, half as long az my arm.
AFTER he looked at me little while, he
started for the front room, stopping every
step to listcn. raised up softly, and when
| saw he was in tile front room, got out of
bed and walked on my tip-toes after him, to
get the pistols in the wash stand. The
wash stand is in corner, behind the door
opening from the middle to the front room
| got the pistols out, but / made little
noise, and the man ran back into the room.
He had the candle in one hand, and his big
knife raised in the other. But before DE
saw me behind the door, had both pistols
raised and pointed at him, and told him if
he came three steps nearer to me | would
shoot him.
He looked at roe little bit, and kept
the pistols raised He then hacked out,
goius sideways, and looked at me all the
time. Whenever I started to follow him,
he would stop, and then would stop. When
he got TO the door of my room, he dropped
his candle, and made a rush for the back
yard he upset the chairs and made great
racket. ! then chased him, AMI lust he
was getting up the ladder, / banged away
at him. and down he fell. thought had
shot him, but he jumped up aga, and be-
fore | could get the other pis..l cooked,
he ran np the ladder aud made his escape
over the fence"