Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-05-10


tBo feet from the ground, some hne black
thread; this was made fast on. one
side, but slipped through loop. and led
up to my window on the other The
thread then passed through the hole had
bored in the window.sash. and was then
made fast to this key. Under the key |
placed the tin box, and over the key was
q bar to prevent its being dragged up more
than six inches.
Each night before | went to bed, | just
drew the string tight, and fastened it in
the yard, taking care to free 1T before
morning, SO as to keep the plan secret
If man or anything above two feet high
walked up the yard, the thing was pressed
against, the key vas drawn up sharply
against the bar, and the string broken,
when the key, of course, fell into the tin
box, making quite noise enough to awake
me.
Immediately the string or thread broke,
it would fall to the ground and the per-
son who had done all this would not have
felt anything, the resistance being so slight,
must own I should have preferred horse
hair to thread, but as it was, the latter ans
wered very we'll
was fast asleep when thu key fell, but
Immediately awoke, and taking my Ian
tern outside my door, lighted it, and came
to you, for l knew that man only in
the back yard could have dropped my
key.
So now you see how the burglars were
trapped; for you know the rest, :"
Certainly, you succeeded and so we
ought not to be critical" we replied.
but suppose they had entered by the
front window, instead Of by the back,
how then ?" ..... ......
"You see this thread" he said, grasp
ing one that was near the door; pull it"
l did SO, and Immediately tin cup
dropped into the hand-basin.
THAT thread goes down stairs, and is
fastened across the front window; but ]
broke that off as | went out of my room,
80 that it should not impede my journey
down stairs. Thus could at once know
whether man was approaching the back
door or had entered by the front window,
and in either case, think could have
captured him"
Simplicity had been adopted in the pres
emit case, but the means had shown them
selves to be efficient.
People are usually very silly" contin-
ned our friend, "when they hear, or think
they hear, suspicious noises of night.
The first thing they usually do is to light
a candle, which proclaims to the robber
that he has been heard, and must escape
then they 60 about the house with this
candle, and make great noise, so that
man may have plenty of time to get away
or to hide himself. Instead of this, if
person were to listen intently, he would
be able to hear any suspicious noises dis
tinctly, and decide upon their cause then,
as he must know his own house better
than a robber, he is best of of the two in
the dark; and when. having armed him.
self, he has quietly opened his door, he
may wait and listen until the robbers are
heard moving about, when he may take
such steps as may seem necessary. If ev-
cry person were merely to plan what was
to be done in case of robbers entering his
house, and then were to carry out this if
the occasion required it, burglary would
be be too dangerous and unsuccessful
proceeding to be popular or profitable, and
thus might be given up for more honest
means of obtaining livelihood SO that
really we may consider ourselves to have
done the community at large a benefit,
when we capture one of these gentry;
whilst those who allow their houses to be
robbed with IMMUNITY, jeopardize their
neighbours property"
ca Gov Brownlow of Tennessee
has offedred reward Of $4,000 for one