The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-18
A HIGH-TONED BURGLAR.
What His Self-Denying Action Has Done
 for the Wild Western States.

What His Self-Denying Action Has Done
 for the Wild Western States.
 It would appear from recent dis patch from Chicago that there is not only honor among Illinois thieves, but that the honor is of delicate variety. Here is the telegram referred to:
 CHICAGo-Burglars entered the house of County Attorney flaw last Monday and among other things stole silver card case worth $40, a present to Mrs. Law. mail carrier to day handed to Mrs Law large package addressed to her containing the card case and letter. The letter was as follows:
 MRS LAw-DEAR MADAM:-Inclosed you will find your card case. Knowing that you appreciate it highly gift we return 1t to you. We never take presents. Yours,
 It will be pretty generally conceded, we believe, that none but burglar ot the very finest feel ngs could have writ ten the above, and its existence is well calculated to cause the blush of shame to mantle the cheeks of the cracksmen of the East. There may be exceptions, but as rule the burglars of the AtIan- tic seaboard do not draw the line at presents. They draw it at a red-hot stove We don't ever remember to have heard of a burglar whose chosen field of labor was the Eastern States re- turning a silver card case worth forty dollars on the romantic ground that it was a present and that the white-w nged angel of Duty would not suffer him to take anything which came under the head of gage ddnaOur.
 In thus voluntarily surrendering an elegant piece of lver, which he had earned by the sweat of his dark lantern and at the risk of having his personal liberty interfered with and his body filled with pistol balls, the Illinois bur glar has accomplished two good things. He has not only done much to elevate the standard of applied breaking the country over, but he has gone far to convince the intelligent foreigner that ''the Vest of .'the States is by no means as wild as it is too often painted. For the intelligent foreigner may well conclude that if the Western burglar is so fine a gentleman as to scorn to appropriate forty-dollar silver card cases the dominating forces of that section of our country must be such as to stand for the highest ClVlllZaIlOn, Ine InoSI CldIlHeu 0GllICS. We are aware an impression is abroad in England on the continent that there is wickednesS in Chicago; that Cincin- natl is no better than she might be; that St. Louis is given over to worldliness, and that the abandoned sign pool for the drinks" may be seen in sundry oth- CT Western cities After this it will be exceedingly difficult to convince the un- preiudiced mind that such stories are not malignant falsehoods. The burglar whose honor was so sensitive that he would have none of forty-dollar pre- sentation card eases has stamped them out.
 The name of this high-toned, self denying burglar is not given. Nor is it intimated that that his portrat is to appear in one of the illustrated papers. It is not even rumored that he is sus- pected of an intention to lecture, to go upon the stage, to accept an engagement at Bowery museum. He would ap- pear to be plain, transformations per son, averse to having his left hand know what card cases his right hand re- turns, caring only for the commenda- tion of an approving conscience.-M r T1-ih1L97e