Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-06-26
A BURGLARS MEMORANDA.
Items From the Notebook of q Wide.
Awake Professional.

| Awake professional.
House No. - Woodward avenue
brick; very stylish; coachman; three
girls and dog. Dog is lazy; eoachmal
gets tight and the girls gad out goot
deal O nights. Owner always carrie,
home wad of money; wife has dia
monds; roof of side porch takes you int
spare room; Doodle will amount to a
least six hundred dollars, ant
no danger; cop on that beat cover,
mile, and is also in love with no less
than five servant girls along the way
best time to get in is about 11:3O, as the
old man always drinks two bottles Of
beer at 1890 and goes to bed with his
socks on.
House No - Alfred street; business
man; well heeled; two servant girls and
small dog; wife has one thousand dol
lars worth of diamonds, which she hides
IN an old dress in the clothespress, CIV.
cry night; man leaves money and watch
In clothes on chair; sleeps on his back
and snores like tugboat; wife light
sleeper, but won't wake her husband
up If she hears noise for fear he will be
croaked; dog has run of house all night,
but can't smell and is blind in one eye;
hired girls generally lay awake until
eleven o'clock talking about beanx;
wife goes to bed first and husband reads
half an hour; catch over back kitchen
window always off and burglar alar m
been out of repair for the last four
weeks; sure of thousand dollars and
no risk. Policeman on that beat is coli
or-blind and deaf in left ear, and never
looks into back yards.
mo. - Michigan avenue; store; clerk
sleeps in back room, when he sleeps Mt
all; puts in three nights sparkling girl
on Myrtle street, and is seeing the town
the rest of the time; iron shutter to his
bedroom window supposed to be closed,
but never is; window sash fastened
with nails; can be easily pried up; safe
in office old-fashioned; generally con-
tains about one hundred and fifty dol
lars; if happen to get in when clerk
is there go 'pishn at him; is easily
scared.
mo. - Fifth street; two old maids
three cats-two canary birds, and
small boy who lisps; dreadfully afraid
of burglars; spread newspapers in the
halls and on the stairs so as to hear him
rustic; about fifty dollars worth of solid
silver; perhaps two hundred dollars in
cash; bolts on all doors and windows;
take pane of glass out of pantry win
dow; small boy who lisps sleeps in little
room off back hall upstairs; doesn'tget
enough to eat, and is generally awake
most all night; whisper 'soupr at him if
he is awake; the old maids sleep in
front bedroom, are armed with pitch
fork, two clubs, old gun-barrel and
have always declared
they would fight to the death; probably
go into conniption fit at once; address
Them courteously but firmly; be good
Joke after getting all the Doodle to make
Them get up and cook hearty ineal for
jhe boy.
mo. - Cass avenue; brick house;
stone steps; real lace curtains; poodle
log; 01l servant; family of four; said tc
De about five ia. dred dollars worth of
poodle to be picked up, old man has
shotgun at head of bed; dasn't fire it,
wife hystericky; two boys, of no ac.
'ount, as they are leading amateur
athletes; get in by cellar door; if poodle
S awake new at him; cats scare him to
leath; old man said to have mania for
passing off twenty-cent pieces for quar-
ers; count your change before leav-
ng detroit Free Press.