Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-08
ABURGLAR'S CHAT.
The Enterrrising Housebreaker and
His Victims side Lights on . Dark

~ IN 80 r. 5tt1 ~
From The Boston Herald.
Newer kill man save In self defense;
get caught rather than drop man, !" was
the prudent motto ola celebrated cracks
man. .It b only the tyro Of the bung-
ier who dourishes revolvers and quickly
appeals to the bludgeon." ~ r.
What y the prime quality IN your
Nerve nothing else" -
hat Is the best method7'
Boldness. Many a job have I done
right before the eyes Of the people; done
y a though It was the regular thing and
\ was just where ought to be. have
]: lad my pal taking things out of house
when couple Of cops we're walking by,
and stood with a pencil in my hand
keeping tally the things. They thought
TWAS all right, as looked right at them.
tell You a fellow wants to keep perfect
ycool and know what he is doing and
wat he is going to do every time. =
Ihe right kind of men are somehow
lacking. They are either too timid or
tQo.yough. q 1t wants q fine man, real
B Damascus blade, to do neat job. There
are plenty OF opportunities, 1t there
We're only the men to fill them. But l.
\ was speaking OF chances. The people
are asleep; you are awake. They are
timid; you are perfectly cool. You
know just what to DO. You know just
what they will do if they wake up.
They don't know how many are in the
house, nor where YOU are. Most people
aSe towards in the night. Without any
odds you could get the best OF them, but
In the night, with the huybear and the
reality of burglar IL the house-and
they have spent all the years OF their
) lives in working up dreadful fellow in
their imaginations- such plight, s.
mans house is like foreign land to
him, and he is perfect stranger to the
situation in his own home"
Then you trust most to beTiider-
ment and tear?"
tNo, we don't. A good job means
getting in and out again without stirring
things up. If it comes to the worst,
then the dread and tear and confusion
which we cause all help US, and some
times the more fuss there is the easier
we can get off,"
"How do you feel when you are alone
in a house at midnight running such
terrible risks?"
'There, now, you have got as much nom
sense into that question as they usually
do. In the first place, midnight is not
the usual hour when house is worked
Things are not SO quiet generally as they
are two hours laIer. And then, ii ii
were midnight, what of iti Midnight
expect to towards, is no different from
10 RI "a
safer for those like us. Alone in a
house? It is little shaky at times, but
generally safe enough; but that isn't the
way house is generally worked.
There should be two, and three are
better. Terrible risks? We don't think
of it in that light. There is something
always fascinating in the risk, and it
isn't considered objectionable. What
do we think? How do We feel? Now,
look here, there isn't much time nor
occasion for thinking and feeling outside
the job to be done. Your sentimental
chaps don't want to be proving about
nights on any of these delicate 'rackets.
The man who is going to stop If, a bed
room Of strange house at CLOCK at
night to consult his feelings had better
keep out of that bedroom. The man
who proposes to enter this profession
wants to run slow on the thinking aud
feeling lines, especially when on duty"
"How does an operator feel when be
is confronted by some inmate?'
'sIn the first place, he fee els that some
thing must be done pretty id quick
Dodge 'em if you can, but no fooling,
anyhow. Do anything short of kill
iS5a if necessary. The women
ARE the hardest to manage, except a man
who can wake up cool and has his weap
ons handy. That is the time that tries
man and puts him on his mettle. If ii
comes to that it's really desperate fol
run the risk unless there's a big stake
The funniest experience ever had was
when went into bedroom one nigh
where there was one man asleep. ] wa:
at the bureau drawers, and, looking IN
to the glass, saw him sit bolt upright
and look at me. I turned pretty quick
YOU may believe, but he never STREE
nor spoke. didn't move after turning
round, but looked at him and lie at me
very soon saw that ne was not awake
gathered up the swag and walket
round the bed to the door, but his eye
were on me all the While. / got out Q
the room sa'ely, and he never spok'
nor afterward made any disturbance.
didn't stay much longer in that house.
"Tiow is it about the womon?" @
ssThey are curious. Some of them
will bury themselves under the bed
clothes, while others will spring at yo1
like a she tiger. A good many will glad
" let you take any thing you want i
you will only keep away from them
The faintisg kind are the best; they
are soon laid out, the 'screechers' maxi
the ru mpus they are no ways reason
able. Their is ouly one thing to do