Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-12-25
CLEvERLY CAUGHT.
The Rich Mans Fear of Burglers-The
Story of an Electrician.

The Rich Mans Fear of Burslers-Th.
story of an Electrician.
Buffalo, n. Y, News.
At the dead hour of the night, Mr.
b. Anthony, wholesale grocer of Troy
n. Y, was awakened by mis- burgla,
alarm annunciator, which told him tina
his house had been entered through the
roof scuttle. He hastily dresses, ring.
for policeman, hurries to the upper
story, and hears the burglar in the ser
wants room, threatening her with in
slant death If she made aloud noise.
He was captured, convicted and sen.
fenced to Sing Sing Prison for ten years
So said Mr.. c. H. Westfall, the electri
clan of Westfeld, N. Y, to our reporter
do city residents generally use burg
lar alalms?"
Eyes, all frst-class houses are provided
| with them, and l have never had any
dissatisfaction from my customers, many
of whom are the best known and wealth.
lest people of New York, Boston, Phila.
delphia and other large cities"
do wealthy men have much fear OF
burglars?"
"As a rule wealthy men do not keep
valuables in their houses, and yet they
are not sure that they shall escape bur
glarious attacks, and they don't feel Sc
cure without a first-class burglar alarm
apparatus in their house. Every door.
window and scuttle is connected with
the annunciator, and it is quite impos-
slble to effect an entrance without the
fact becoming at once known"
Don't electricians run considerable
risk in handling Wires?"
Even the most careful of them some
times get shock. A few years ago
while l was descending stairs at Elmira
N. Y, with wire coil in my hand, l
felt as though l had received the entire
charge from the battery. For over a
half hour l suffered the keenest agony.
l did not know but what l had been
fatally injured. After completing my
business circuit l returned to Boston,
and for eighteen months did not get
over the shock. I lost my appetite; all
food tasted alike. 1 could not walk
across the common without resting sew
eral times"
"My head whirled. and l reeled like
drunken man. consulted the best physi-
clans in agood many large cities, but none
of them seemed to understand my case.
a bout year ago was in Albany, and a
physician there stated that l would prob
ably not live three months. But to-day
said Mr.. Westfall, and he Strengthened
himself up with conscious pride, $50 far
as | know, / am in perfect health. l
weigh ITO pounds, eat we'll, sleep we'll,
feel well, and am well. One of my old
physicians gave me thorough examin-
alton few weeks ago, and told me that
l was in perfect condition"
"You are very fortunate man, sir"
remarked the scribe, ito have escaped
instant death after an electric shock"
20, it was not electricity that prostra-
ted me. 1t was a uremic CONFUSION.
For all my physicians told me 1 was
victim of very serious kidney disorder.
And when they had dozen widely ad-
vertised medicines failed to benefit me.
Warmers Safe Cure restored me to per-
feet health. That preparation is invalu-
able to every grade of society, for it is a
priceless blessing"
There is no need of death from hand
ling electrical wires if the operators will
exercise care. In our burglar alarm at
tachments there is no possible danger
from that source"