New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-26
A SINGULAR STORY.


"A Magic Looking Gl0ss Reveals the
Presence Of . Burglar.
If the following incidents, related by
the Detroit Free Press, has a strange look
to any reader, he may reflect that just as
strange things are happening every day
and if any one doubts that it is not strictly
true, in every word, he can learn names
and locations at any time he chooses to
call at that Office. Tuesday night, OF
rather, at few minutes past one O'Clock
Wednesday morning, gentleman living
in the western part of the city was awak-
ened by his wife, who whispered in his
ear that she had seen burglar looking
into the bedroom door from the sitting
room. The window of the bedroom looks
out upon back yard, being on the ground
floor; the curtain was up, add one could
see out to plainly discover any object in
the yard; there was lamp burning in a
sitting room, just out from the bedroom
door, turned partly down.
The light from the lamp streamed in a
narrow ray, until it rested directly upon a
large mirror which hung on the wall.
The light from without came in from a
broken pane, until it also rested upon the
glass. When the wife whispered to the
mans face in the glass. While the hus-
band doubted, she exclaimed, "There, he
is moving back! There, I see him look
ing in again!"
The man turned over until he could see
the door, and there was no one there.
His revolver was lying handy on the
stand, and he picked it up, whistling softly
for the little house dog, who came in from
the kitchen, which room was just beyond
the sitting room. As the dog came in the
husband insisted that everything was all
right, or the animal would have given the
alarm. In less than q minute after the
wife saw the face in the glass again, and
became so terrified that she rose up in
bed, and the husband sprang out and
stared into the sitting room. As he
reached the lamp and turned it up to a
full blaze, the woman screamed in
alright, and the man heard a noise in the
kitchen which caused him to push the
door wide open, which crashed against
chair. Seeing that the room was empty
he turned for the bedroom, where the wife
was shouting that man was running
across the back yard. Springing to the
window, revolver in hand the gentleman
made an effort to lower the top sash, held
up by stick, but he got it down only in
time to see form swing over the fence,
with noise that set all the dogs to bark
ing for block around, and woke up the
sleeping inmates of the houses on each
side.
The wife says that when her husband
turned on the light, she saw man come
into full view in the glass. She saw the
form of his face, how he wore his whiskers,
the kind of hat he had on, the color of his
clothes, and she saw him looking and
listening just as one would if alarmed.
When the kitchen door banged back, the
man, satisfied that some one was up,
started on the run, his form being visible
in the glass until he had passed a certain
distance, when it grew so small that it
faded away. Now, the most curious fact
of the incident is that the would-be burg
lar did not get into the house at all, but
was at the time standing close to kitchen
window that is at an angle with the win
dow of the bedroom. He had probably
just gained bis position, when some move
ment of his alarmed the wife. The light
striking the glass caused it to reflect OBJ
jects from without.