Connecticut western news., 1878-08-08

~A@~ S~AAAAAN~kS barrel of rifle was thrust half way out, and an angry voice asked:
 "What do you want here ?"
 Fortunately the Herald man had a large gold badge of the shape worn by the New York police, that had been pre- sented to him by the Commissioners, and he had presence of mind enough to pull back the lapel of his coat and show it. The man in the window Cfor there was Q man at the other end of the rife) at once took us for detectives anxious to catch his burglars, and he said, in an spologetic tone:
 ''Oh, that's all right. Wait till I open the door,"
 Thus, by the mere possession of a badge, we might, had we been burglars, have plundered the house again and made short work of it's inmates. But, being reporters, we didn't. ....-, ..-
 The rifle barrel disappeared, the win dow was closed, we heard man stum- bling his way about in the dark inside, and soon the front door was opened and we were invited in. Our host hurried ahesd and opened door leading into what was evidently his bedroom, where bright light was burning, although the windows were so closely and so heavily curtained that nothing of it could be seen from the outside. a--5 es s.. < 's.. .a
 Reckoning us to stand still when we had reached the first room to the right of the narrow hail we had first entered, our involuntary host took match out of his vest pocket, lit kerosene lamp that stood upon the mantelpiece, and turned first time that he was fully dressed. He told us that his family, consisting of himself, his grown son, and two half- grown ghters, had been left in such a nervous condition by the robbery of the night before that they had concluded not to go to bed and the two young women fearing to be left alone, they were all four spending the night in the adjoining room, talking, reading, and playing euchre, half expecting, in their nervous state, another visit from the burglars. When we knocked at the door, he said, they half believed that they were again to be attacked. .-.- E.. s..
 He called his two daughters ip to be introduced to us, and two very pretty young women they were. His son, he said, was still suffering from injuries the burglars inflicted upon him, and he in.. vlted us into the chamber to see him. The son was powerful young fellow of twenty-two, or thereabouts, with swarthy complexion, somewhat whitened by loss of blood. His left eye was as black as the night outside, and he had bandage around his right wrist. He seemed to suffer when he spoke, and we soon left him, and took seats in the room where the farmer had lit the lamp, which was evidently the common sitting-room. The old gentleman closed the chamber door, stood the lamp on the square table in tine centre of the room, and took seat directly in front of the old-fashioned fireplace, in which the remains of a comfortable wood fire were smoldering. One of his daughters seated herself on each side of him, but at some distance, and the Herald man put his chair be- tween the table and the back wall of the room, facing the table. Twas the last to be seated, and sat down in the only re- maining chair, without moving it con- siderably, which left me facing the table, and everybody in the room, with my back half toward the front wall and half toward the little hall through which we had entered. This left me so that I could see everything that was done in | the inhabited part of the room, and left the Herald man an uninterrupted view of the front window and of the door leading into the little hall. I describe these situations with precision, so that what follows may be understood
 The daughter nearest the rear wall first attracted my attention Gas I was facing her) by moving her chair nervously foot or so further away from stout door that was cut through the wall by her side. In looking from the girl to the door, noticed that it was kept shut by an unusually stout latch, that had not the usual piece, or catch, and the door opened only from the room in which we were. Besides this, there was heavy bolt near the top, and an. other, it's counterpart, about foot from the bottom. I supposed the door tc open into the yard, and considered the girls action, in moving further away from it, to be due to her nervous fear. The blinds were closely drawn, and nc one could have seen into the room.
 The old man began, in reply to oul
 questions, to tell us about the burglary
 We had long before disavowed any Pc
 lice authority, and told him who W.
 were, and why we wanted to know hi
 story. He said that on the night before
 at little before 12, as nearly as he could guess, his son, who slept in the room
 with him, heard noise at the sitting
 room window, (pointing to the window at which we had rapped,) and went int,
 the room to see what it was, waking him
 the father, as he passed by his bed. II
 an instant there was a scufae, lastin,
 more than second. The old gentleman
 felt 8 breath of cold air, as if from al
 open window. sas o~5aF I While the farmer was warmly describ ing the entrance of the burglars, an,
 just at this point, heard the faiates echo of chain beyond the doubly- -bolte' door, and the girl nearest it gave anerv
 Ous start and moved her chair still close