The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08

From the Boston Herald.
Z Never kill a man save in SELF defense;
get caught rather than drop a man." was
the prudent motto ola celebrated cracks
mar. "It is only the tyro of the bung-
Ter who lourishes revolvers and quickly
appeals to the bludgeon."
What is the prime quality in your
business?"
'Nerve-nothing else"
"What is the best methodP"
"Boldness. Many a job have / done
right before the eyes of the people; done
it as though it was the regular thing and
| was just where / ought to be. / have
lad my pal taking things out of a house
when a couple of cops were walking by,
and stood with a pencil in my hand
keeping tally ofthe things. They thought
it was all right, as I looked right at them.
tell you a fellow wants to keep perfect
" cool and know what he is doing and
what he is going to do every time.
"The right kind of men are somehow
lacking. They are either too timid or
too rough. 1t wants a fine man, a real
Damascus blade, to do a neat job. There
are plenty OF opportunities, If there
were only the men to fill them. But /
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
are towards in the night. Without any
odds you could get the best of them, but
in the night, with the bugbear and the
reality of a burglar in the house--and
they have spent all the years of their
lives in working up q dreadful fellow in
their imaginationB-in such a plight, a
mans house is like a foreign land to
him, and be is q perfect stranger to the
situation in his own home"
"Then you trust most to beWiider-
ment and feRrf"
''No, we don't. A good job means
getting in Spd out again without stirring
things up. if 1t comes 10 the worst,
which we cause all help us, and some
we can get Oft"
p IdOW uO YOu lNOL WHICH, IOu dAC diODC
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 a house is worked.
Things are not so quiet generally as they
are two hours LATER. And then, If It
we're midnight, what of il? Midnight.
ay,Nnrk 70 0nuyorI1 "a No Aff4n rant fpnnn
any other hour, only as it is q great deal
safer for those like us. Alone in a
house? 1t is q little shaky at times, but
Ngenerally safe enough; but that isn't the
way a house is generally worked.
There should be two, and three are
better. Terrible risks? We don't think
Of it in that light. There ia 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 prowling about
nights on any of these delicate 'rackets.'
The man who is going to stop In a bed
room of strange house at 2 o'clock at
night to consult his feelings had better
keep out of that bedroom. The man
who proposes to enter this profession
wantsto run slow on the thinking and
feeling lines, especially when on duty
How does an operator feel when he
fs confronted by some inmate?"
In the first place. he feels that some-
thing must be done pretty id quick.
Dodge EN- If you can, but no fooling,
anyhow. Do anything short of kill
ing, 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
a man and puts him on his mettle. fit
comes to that it's really desperate for
somebody, but a man has no business to
run the rlss unless there's a big stake.
The funniest experience / ever had was
When ! went into q bedroom one night
where there was one mar asleep. was
&C the bureau drawers, and, looking IN
70 the glass, | saw him sit bolt upright
and look at me. / turned pretty quick,
you mast believe, but he never stirred
nor spoke. / didn't move after turning
round, but looked at him and he at me.
very 0 o saw that he was not awake
gathered up the swag aIIG walked
round the bed to the door, but his eyes
We're on me all the sghile. / got out OF
tue room safely, and he never spoke
Dor aiterward made any disturbance. l
alan.t stay much longer in that house"
How is it about the womon?''
They are curious. Some of them
viii bury themselves under the bed
clothes, while others will spring at you
IKE . she tiger. A good many will glad
y let you take any thing you want il
you VIII only keep away from them.
The fainting kind are the best; they
sse soon laid out, the 's~creechers' make
aDie. Their 9 is only one thing to do
get olt OF it the easiest way possible"