Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-06-29

had not long 10 wait, fora lEcifer
was struck By one Of the men immedi-
ately, and the room consequently lighted
up; al the same Instant my friend drew
up the slide Of bis dark lantern, and
flashed The light On the faces Of the two
men, az The same time showing the muz-
zle ola revolver pointing towards them.
IF either Of you move I'll pat 8
couple Of buliets In him, said my friend
as be placed bis back against the win
dow By which the men had entered.
Now drop taat crow bar, he continued
with agoica of authority, ''down with il;
esd yoa, be said 10 me, pull open the
shutter and shout for the police"
e The idea thai il usually entertained
Of burglar 10, thai be IL q man Of
great size. sirength and daring, and that
be would iu an eHeoanter aanihlate any
moderate man. When. then, the light
revealed The faces and forms Of the men
we had captured, our homble self,
though no great pugilist, yet felt able to
def at either Of them il II had come to a
matter Of fsts; and must own that the
pale and astonished faces Of the men
were not indicatiye Of any very great
courage.
Our shout for the police was shortly
answered; and the burglars having been
sabdued BY che sight Of the revolver, the
muzzIs Oh which pointed first at one,
then at the other, we're captured by the
police, three Of Whom we're speedily on
the spot, and conveyed to the lookup,
whilst We and detective who had been
brought down from London some days
preyiously, examined the details By
which The men had efFeced an entrance.
"You were very lnckg to hear them,
especially on such night, said the de
tective; when once they in they move
like mice. We know them; and / ex-
pect they'll get seven years"
The man was about correct, for one,
the older offended, was sentenced to six,
the other 10 Eve years penal servitude.
IL will, suppose, be of no use trying
to sleep again tonight, for il is three
O'Clock" said my friend.
Il cannot sleep" was my reply; land
/ am dying to hear how you found out
that these men we're approaching the
house as
3 BEING. Then, OF one mind, We partly
rob-d ourselves, lighted q FIRE in the
kitchen, and soon being provided with
cigars and Rrog, got very comfortable
and satisfied With our work. My friend
then began his account, which be gave
much in Il following words:
'The burglar, as told you, has usual
" the advantage of surprise; be can Sc
lect the time at which he makes the at
tack, and if his proceedings are carried
on cautiously, he enters the house before
ha 10 heard Few men would, however,
venture to do so, unless they previously
had good information az to the interior
arrangements Of the house; this they
obtain either from servants, tradssmen,
or some one who visita the locality, or
they come themselves as tramps, Or With
some trfi to sell Thus, II there are
bells attached ~ the doors or windows
they dnd Il out and they know tolerably
weld the domestic arrangements of the
locality they propose trying their skill
upon There are, too, conventional
modes Of protecting, a house, such az
bolts, bars, chains, locks, &c, all Of
which require meraly time and proper
implements to ogarcome. It. therefore,
occurred to methat novelty and simplic-
ity combined would be more than
match for the coarse intellect OF bur
Rlar, and thus made my plans, which
you see answered very well.
mo doubt about that" we replied.
"Well now, come up to my room"
be continued, land see the apparatus
We entered bis room, and there, close
beside bis pillow, was tin box, in the
bottom Of which was q key.
This 10 nearly all the apparatus" he
said; Nbnt you notice some thread fas-
tened to the key trace that thread, and
son will End it passes through that small
hole Ia the SASH from there it goes
down to the backyard; and you will
comprehend my plan. knew that no
man could approach the back yard,
which ia only tour yards wide. / there
fore tied across the back yard, and
about two feet from the ground, some
fine black thread; this was made fast on
one side, bur slipped through loop, and
led upt my window on the other The
thread then passed through the hele /
had boared ia the window-sash, and was
then made fast 70 this key. Under the
KEY ] placed the tin box, you see; aud
over the key was bar, to prevent the
key from being dragged up over ak
inches. Each night, before | went to
bed, / Just drew the string tight, and
fastened il In the yard, taking care to
free il before morning, 80 as to keep the
plan secret II, then, a man, or any
thing above two feet high, walked up
the yard, the string was pressed against,
that the key was drawn up sharply
against tho bar, and the string broken,
when The key, of course, fell into the tin
box, making quite noise enough TO wake
me Iumedintely the string or thread
broke, il would fall to the ground; and
the person who bad done all this would
not have felt aay hing, the resistance
being so slight ] must own that should
have preferred horse hair 10 thread, bul
as il was, the latter answered very we'll
| | was fast asleep when the key fell, bul
Immediately aAoke. and taking my Ian.
tern outside my door, lighted il, and
carle to you, for knew that man onlY
| in the back yard could have dropped my
key So nov son zee how the burglars
w,re trapped, for you know all the
| rest" a e
.Csrtainly, you succeeded, and so WI
ought not 10 be critical, we replied
7"Bat suppose they had entered BY til,
front window, instead Of BY the back
how ihen23 a
sYau see this thread, be said, grasp
ing one that was near the DOOR "pul
it,
I did so, end Immediately tin cur
dropped into hand basin.
That thread goes down stairs, and i
fastened across the front window but
broke that off IS went cat Of my room
so that it should not impede my journey
down stairs, Thus conld at ones
know whether man was approaching
the bark door or had entered by tbs
front window, and in either case thinl
could have captured him"
| Simplicity had certainly been adopted
In the present case, but the means has
shown themselves TO be efficient
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