Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-04-13

hove in sign about ten minutes after.
wards, while We walked past him.
Then we vaitei till he returned. rbis
time we did not pass him. but watched
from corner at distance.
Twenty minutes ana a half between
going and coming. exclaimed my com.
panion. "And handy beat for he
comes up the corner there po.ntiro
to one little beyond the shop and
goes down thb street next ours
The impression began to steal over
me that Iwas committing. or helping
to commit, a felony, and that if caught
I might get into trouble thought
of running for it but tine remark my
companion made at that moment ia
the effect that it would he a short run
if 1 desertei him for he seemed to
see I didn't like the JOIN, deferred mc.
Idared ne, Explain that he had made
a mistake, F0r felt sure that he mpst
have mistaken me for some allv Of
his own 'Gmu,t gothrough with it,"
thinks L Hell leave me outside to
watch, and I'll hook it then e So l
went on.
He crested the street again the mo.
mentthe | loliceman was past interfor-
ing with Is, and producing a piece
Of stout black cloth he applied tho
rule thereto l holding it against the
shutters, aEhile he set out three and a
half by tiTQ" thereon. This done he
cut it within two inches Of the mea-
surement lll round, and then produc-
ing trea,le-pot from his pocket. he
smotheres one side Of the cloth with
treacle, and, desiring me to hold il, he
mounted the shop-door. 50 to speak.
again; anil gave him the cloth, which
he Immediately clapped on to the sky
light, the treacle making it adhere
firmly to the glass. Then, looking at
his watch, he cried.
"Byj ngol he'lltehere this minute,'
and away we walked. A glance be
hind US, as we turned the next corner
Not yet in sight We stopped anc
waited, but the policeman came not
Ny friend muttered an oath, adding
I'm 60 Come along; but keep you
weather-eye OPEN And off we went
Perhaps he is Watching us, l sug
gested. But the idea was discarde,
as not in the nature of a policeman
"like tlsa one we saw"
We arrived at the shop. Hemounte
again, and drove a string through
hole in the cloth. Then lie ran dis
mond round the edge of the glass.
gentle Il Il, and it gave way. Now
saw rrsksa OF the cloth and strin
He c,uid hold the glass by the strin
and he slowly let it down into the sho
and, producing long-shaped pad,
laidit along the bottom Of the fanligl
to cover the glass edge, and threw ol
leg intothe opening and got astride
it,
"FOlow me-" he muttered. al
ducked his head under the door-hea
But before he could draw in the 9th
leg mounted the ladder, and, seiziI
it, gave him pull that kept him fro
going IN, at the same time yellin
Police Thieves! Murder! Policel'
the top of my voice. And, 10 and b
hold the policeman appeared at Il
corne. at that moment. A horrib
oath from within, a pistol-bull
whistling past my head, and l ran f
death and life. l did not stop till
found myself in Broad street.
In the next days papers / saw Il
account of the capture of a burglar
one policeman, who had watched tV
burglars from the corner, and saw OF
enter the house. and the other leap I
the wall like cat, grab at a disappea
ing leg, and yell Police" and run.
The one that was caught got seyt
wears penal seryitude, and "the polic
are searching vigilantly, though y
unsuccessfully, for the other, who,
appears, is desperate character
They never caught him.-CaSseH