Connecticut western news., 1884-01-16
A CRACKSMAN'S CHAT.
How n Burglar gets into a House at Night
 And Gets Out Again.


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 "Nerve-nothing else.'
 "What is the best method ?'
 "Boldness. Many job have done right before the eyes of people; done it just as though it was the regular thing and was just where I ought to be. l have had my pal taking things out of a house when a couple of cops were walk ing by, and stood with pencil in my hand, keeping tally of the things. They thought it was alright, as looked right at them. I tell you fellow wants to keep perfectly 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. It wants fine man, a real Damascus blade, to do neat job. There are plenty of opportunities, if there were only the men to fill them. But I was speaking about chances. The people are asleep; you are awake. They are timid; you are perfectly cool. 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. With out any odds you could get the best of them, but in the night with the bug bear and the reality of burglar in the house-and they have spent all the years of their lives in working up a dreadful fellow in their imagination-in such a plight mans house is like a foreign land to him, and he is perfect stranger to the situation in his own home."
 "How do you feel when you are alone in a house at the dead of night and running such terrible risks?"
 "There, now, you have got as much nonsense 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 later. And then, if it were midnight, what of 1t? Midnight except to towards is no different from any other hour, only as it is great deal safer for those like us. Alone in house? It is little shaky at times, but generally 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 is something fascinating about the risk and 1t 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 of 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 go- ing to stop in bedroom of strange house at two o'clock at night to consult his feelings had better keep out ot the bedroom. The man who proposes to enter this profession will want to run very slow on the thinking and feeling line, particularly when he is on duty"
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 "In the first place he feels that some- thing must be done pretty quick. Dodge 'em if you can, but no fooling anyhow. Do anything short of killing, if neces sary. The women are the hardest to handle, except man who wakes up cool with his weapons handy. The funniest experience ever had was when I went into 8 bedroom one night where there was one man asleep. I was at the bureau drawers, and looking into the glass saw him sit bolt upright and look at me. turned pretty quick, you may believe, but he never stirred nor spoke. I didn't move after turning round, but looked at him and he at me. I very soon saw that he was not awake. I gathered up the swag and walked round the bed to the door, but his eyes were on me all the while. I got out of the room safely, and he never spoke or after ward made any disturbance. I didn't stay much longer in that house, | Poefos7 Hor0Io