The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-07-11
A CALIFORNIA SENSATION.
A Midnight Intruder Who Tickles Fo.
males Feet.


san Francisco CALL
The worthy citizens living in the subur.
han districts of South San Francisco and
Butchertown are greatly excited at pres
ent, but their excitement amounts to al.
most nothing when compared with their
indignation. The peace OF their homes has
been suddenly shattered by the advent of
a crank in their midst and all the efforts
of officer Bennett and the other policemen
stationed in that district have thus far
been unsuccessful in ferreting him out.
When the neighbors mee1 in the morning
the first question they ask one another is,
'Whose feet were tckled last night?" The
cause OF their uneasiness can be briefly ex.
planned. Shortly after midnight
lie" weeks ago gentleman living
Win his family near the slaughter. house
| was awakened from his sleep by the pierre
ing shrieks of his daughter, a !young miss
OF sixteen summers. He grabbed re.
volver and hurriediy ran to her room, in
the expectation of meeting burglar. The
girl was almost dead from fright, and in
broken accents she narrated to her father
The cause of the cutlery. She had been
rudely awakened from her dreams of
innocence by tickling sensation in the
soes of her feet. When shell opened her
eyes she saw, by the aid of the pale moon.
| light, which was struggling through the
! bedroom window, a masked man standing
Mt the foot of her bed. She shrieked, and
the intruder sprang through the window,
out into the yard, which is few feet be-
low, and made his escape. The father at
hrst thought that the girl had been dream.
ing, but the cold night air waited up from
the bay soon made him realize that the
bedroom window was open and the adven-
tuie reality. He closed the window and
| sat down on a chair to cogitate on the
strange affair, when his teeth began to
chatter. He started Off for his own bed
to continue his meditation, when he dscov.
cred that the front door was open. He
closed and locked the door, and when he
| reached his bedroom he found his wife
| closing the window in the room. hur.
i1ed Investigation showed that all the win
dows and doors on the lower floor of the
house had been opened by the midnight
| prowler. The next day the police author.
tiles were notified of the nocturnal visitor.
| Scarcely night passes now but that some
female is awakened by the ficnd tickling
| her feet. AS soon AS the victim wakes up
the man makes his escape, either
through an open window or door. In
every instance the prowler opens all
the doors and windows in the house be-
| tore he proceeds with his deviltry. The
man wears ii wide-brimmed hat, carries a
dark lantern, and has the lower portion OF
his face concealed by towel or CLOTH He
never steals anything, or at any rate moth.
ing has been missed from the houses Wis
tied, except in one case, where n towel was
taken 1t is probabls that the llend forgot
his mask that night and took the towel to
use as a mask. A few nights ago mar
red lady felt the prowling ticker at her
ieet. She quickly lit candle, which the
| intruder as promptly blew out and then
| jumped through an open window. The
officers have been searching for him, and
he seems to he aware of the fact, for he al
ways selects victim at Il distance from
where the officers are stationed. Unless
he is caught in short time the fair lassies
in the locality infested hy him will be COM
| PEELED to wear their shoes in bed to pre-.
vent their having their sleep disturbed
or late cows have been stolen from sta
bles i'll the vicinity, and some of them
have afterward been found shot. or the
others no traces have been found, but
whether the cat lie stealing is a part of tho
programme carried out by the "ieet tick.
! ler' is not known