The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-25
PUT A BURGLAR In A HOLE.
LIVELY TUssLE Nv THE DARK IN A
LENOI AZ. NEE FLAE

Dr, Enders ts six Feet Tall. mad lie IL SURE
isis Burglar Was Sever-They Dropped
His Dowr n wniied-tu Area. and the
Poiico Then Came and Reped Him Out,
DR.. Thomas b. Enders. who lives in the first
Fat In the big apartment house at the corner
OF Lenox avenue and l21st street. tackled a
burglar yesterday morning. and succeeded In
dropping him down an area lined with brick,
where he had to stay half an hour until tho
police came and nshed for him.
The Doctor had a friend calling on him Sat-
urdny night. They went to bed about mid
night In room opening on private hall.
They left one OF the outside windows open
about four inches at the bottom. About
o'clock the Doctor was half awakened by n
noise In the hall. 1t was n sort OF shuffiinR.
He rolled over In bod and looked out the hall
door. He saw shadow. It disappeared the
moment he saw It. He wasn't very wide awake
and he was about to go to sleep again. think
ing the noise had been made by swinging
curtain. when he heard II board creak.
Then he got wide awake. He crspt softly
out OF bed and reached for an old pistol which
hung on the door Mt the foot OF the bed. Tho
pistol is about eighteen inches long To Offset
this 1t was not loaded. He got a match. and
gathering himself together with the young
gun In one hand and the match in the other.
he sprang out into the hall and yelled Halt !"
No nau FCTAICneu tn6 IHtCn Hs no IeW
through the door. and now by its flicker he
saw at the extreme end OF the hall by the door
leading TO the dining room where the window
had been left open a tall and shivering indi-
vidual.
The Doctor is six feet tall. He thinks the man
was at least soven. Haiti" said the Doctor
again. training his blunderbuss forward.
The man had halted already. but the blum
derbuss was too much for his hating faculty.
He dashed through the door into the dining
room. The Doctor followed him, The man
was Just putting leg over the window sill
when the Doctor grabbed him. Then he
turned and the pair grapped.
They struggled all over the room overturn-
ing chairs and bric-a brio. The burglar kept
one hand free and Punched with 1t and he
used both feet to kick his cantor In tho shins.
They twisted and turned all about the room.
occasionally banging against the wall. Every
grip the Doctor got the burglars clothes tore
face and head from punching and he was
momentariiy expecting a blow that would
knock linn out when his grip gave way alto
The burglar made a dash at the window
again. Up to this time the fight had been car
turning chairs. Now the Doctor called Help,
His irisud heard it and hustled across the hall
pied and woke him. The burglar had got one
foot on the sill when he was seized again.
the neck and by one arm. which he su ccee1ei
in bending backward so that it was useless to
the burglar The man servant came In now.
and he got a neck hold and also got tho other
arm. But IN spite Of it the burglar succeeded
tn getting his other leg over the sill and drop
Along the whole side OF the houee ur to this
level there Ia a walled in area. The bottom IL |
tsst ss,ow the leys OF the 1b and the
from the windows, The Eursiar had LEGGED 4
helpless over the hole. His captors didn't |
pulled him n but he pe,sisted in hanging H out
servant had cried Thief" and awak on ed the |
ianitor and the people in the house. Then he |
had dashed out to find burglar alarm. He |
the alarm there going. Heads were now |
stretching out Of various windows In the |
neiRIiborhood and suggestions were made as |
% what the Doctor had better do with his
Victim.
The janitor came in and a further effort was
window. He wouldn't come. His clothing |
already ripped at all his angles. began to give |
servant CAV an extra tug and the coat vest.
and shirt ripped apart Down into the area
the tn, burglar su went ne scrambled to his feet
the area. AMI he picked it up and Threatened
OF taking an empty gun to fight a burga! |
with; The Janitor ran out with u club and |
Doctor and the man servant went for the !
police. The police got there at n quarter to 9 |
O'Clock: and they tlshed the man out with q |
rope. He was willing to come out. He told |
was 30 years old and had no home He was |
held in $1,000 bail at the Harlem Court. |