New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-12-18
A Lady's Wonderful Nerve.

A Lady's Wonderful Nerve.
=, Mrs. lsadore Middleton, very beauti
full woman, and one of the acknowledged
leaders of fashion in Mobile, can Ger
Jainly boast of the possession of as much
nerve and true moral courage as are often
| vonchsafed to any of her sex.
On the evening Of Sept. 10Th, she was
in her boudoir putting away some arti-
Giles OF jeweiry, when she noticed that
the peculiar position of library lamp
that was burning upon a chair in the
back part of the room, had thrown upon
the floor, almost directly at her feet, the
shadow Of q man who was crouching I'm
der a broad topped ornamental table in
the center Of the room. She also re-
marked that the open hand Of the shad-
ow had but two fingers, and remembered
that several desperate burglaries had re-
Gently been committed in the neighbor-
hood, suppositiously by negro despe-
! RADIO who was notorious as having lost
two fingers of bis right hand.
Mr.. Middleton was absent from the
city, and besides herself in the house
there was but single maid servant. In
stead of 1ainting with fear, or shrieking
for help, the brave LADY seated herself al
the very table, underneath which the mis-
creant was concealed, and rarg for the
servant.
"Hand me the writing materials,
Bridget" said she, with perfect calmncss
II want you to take note this instant to
Mr.. Forfar, tie jeweler, and have him
send you back with my diamond neck
lace and ear-drops, which left there for
repair several days ago. Bring them with
you, no matter if fully repaired or not.
They are by twenty fold the most valua-
bic articles Of jewelry that possess, and
| do not wish to pass another night with
out having them here in my bureau
drawer"
The note was at once written and dis
patched, but instead Of in the tenor that
she had signifed (on purpose for the con-
cealed robber to overhear, for she had no
pieces of jewelry under repair), it was a
hasty note to the jeweler, an intimate
friend, in which she succinctly stated her
terrible position, and urged them to hast
en- to her relief, with the requisite police
assistance, Immediately On receipt of the
missive
The agonies which that refined and
delicate women underwent when left
alone in the house, with the conscious
ness of that desperate robber, perhaps as
sassin as we'll, crouching under the very
table upon which she leaned, and per-
haps touched by her very skirts, can only
be left to the readers imagination; but
her iron nerve sustained her through the
ordeal.
She yawned, hummed an operatic air,
turned over the leaves of novel, and in
other ways lulled the lurker into a sense
Of perfect security and expectancy, and
waited, waited, waited, with a wildly
beating heart, and her eyes fastened upon
the hands of her little ormolu clock
with a greedy, feverish gaze.
At last, however, came the prayed for
~elief. There was ring at the door, and
che strolled carelessly into the hall and
Gown stairs to open it. The ruse had
/ cen a success. She not only admitted
ridget, but also Mr.. Forfar and three
ST elwart policeman. The latter passed
st althily up stairs and into the boudoir,
where they suddenly bounced upon the
concealed burglar so unexpectedly as to
secure him with hardly a struggle.
The prisoner proved to be negro
criminal, named Chaplain, but mostly
known as "Two Fingered Jcf," who was
in great request about that time for
several robberies committed in the
neighborhood a short time before, and
he IS now serving a twenty years sentence
in the Alabama State Prison.