The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
TALKING OF BURGLARS.
All the Ladies Told How They
Would Treat One.
Then One OF Them Had . Chance to Try
1t, and the Result Was DisIo-
Gated Ear for Her Husband
Dreadful Tale OF Woe.
[CoPYRIGr, 1892. I

ICOFrhlGhT, loJS.
We were sitting on the steps of the
boarding house, dozen or SO of US.
The landlady had just told story,
which had been pronounced good by
such of US as were behind with our
board money. The story related to a
daring robbery that had been perpe-
trated in the boarding house across the
way.
1t appeared that some hardened sin
ner had entered the house in broad day
light regardless of his reputation" as
our landlady maliciously added. He
had taken things very coolly, and
among the things which he had taken
were various articles of jewelry which
had been rather suspiciously worn by a
lady with supernaturally light hair.
The burglar had remained in her room
nearly an hour and had collected every
article of value which she was not
wearing at the time, but as she gener-
ally wore nearly all the jewelry that
she owned, he was short couple of
dozen rings and watch. Perhaps he
was feeling sorry for this, when sud
denly and unexpectedly the lady re-
turned and caught him in the act.
Thereupon she tainted dead away and
the burglar removed from her mani
mate form those trinkets which the
poor fellow might have missed if she
had not come back just In the nick of
time.
Some Of the gentlemen Of our party
said that this was rather rough on the
lady, but most of our boarders of the
weaker sex seemed to think that it
served her right-for what i did not
ascertain. The landlady simply re-
marked that the burglar was the only
person she had ever known to visit that
house and como away satisfied with
what he got in it.
This story introduced the general
subject of burglars, and the ladies be-
gan to tell what wise and vigorous &C
ton they would take in an emergency
similar to that which had been too
much for their neighbor. Their meth
DDS of action differed one from the
other but they were alike in this that
they left the burglar no earthly chance
to escape with his life. One of them
said she would grasp her husbands re-
volver, ETC., ETC., but when l asked her
which end she would grasp it by she
was unable to state. Another told how
she had once dispersed three tramps by
hurting fiat iron at them. This mis-
sile had severely wounded the fourth
tramp who was approaching from an
other direction.
Finally an intellectual young woman
who had recently been graduated from
an advanced educational institution
land had married man who didn't
know whether Hamlet was written
by Shakespeare or Laura Jean Libby
spoke up in contradiction of them all
She said it was mistake to resort 10
violence in such cases. Moral suasion
was much better. She knew how it
worked because she had had experience
with the most hardened ruhians on the
face of the earth, having taught school
in an eastern seaport town, where, in
her opinion, the boys followed piracy as
a trade in vacation time.
She said that if she found burglar
in her room she would politely ask him
to sit down.
She would then explain to him the
enormity of his crime and its inevitable
consequences. She would show him