The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-09
BURGLARS TRIBUTE TO WOMAN.
How n Cool Headed Girl Captured u
Rascal Hiding Under the Fed.

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THE best way fora woman 10 do II
she woke up aud found a mana work
in her room" says a burglar, would
be To keen very still and pretend she
was still Sleeping, or, if he knew that
she had sacn him. to obey his orders
and keep still. e he thought she
had submitted. he wouldn't watch
her so lard. and it would give her
time to think what TO do. There's
one thing. though. that wo.ll1 he
bad for "a woman. If Il burglar lett
her room 10y the deer she ought ~
listen to his foOtstep or watch the
light o. his lantern. an she don't
want to .et out % bed or move until
he is well .ut of hearing.
"A man who goes ont that way
will always stop when he has goii"a
few feet frum the door where Il WON
an is, and. if he hears her jump oT'
Of bed al onct. he suspects what shes
up IL. and would then escape by the
nearest window and be out OF he.
reach. or else he would go back an
make it dangerous for her. She. wants
ter he cunnip. Then she can catch
him. 1t was a smart girl and Il coo.
girl that got away witt, Il fellow
know. He had got into the second
story window and had just about
landed when he heard two women
comm. He crawlel under the bed
and got out o. sight. The women
came in and undres-ed and got into
bed.
when he thought they had been
in bed long enough to get asleep he
began to work ont. a diin light had
been left in the room. lie had just
got his head to the edge OF the bed
and his hand and arm were sticking
out beyond the bed. when he found
one of the women was getting ont o
bed. She stepped square on his arm.
and looking down saw him. SO II
seemed, draw it back. She went
across tho room ami turned up the
gas and began looking around the
dressing table.
In a minute she called TO the
other Mary. wake up. The
woman got awake. an the other says
What did | do with that letter that
came this afternoon The one II
bed didn't seem to recall the letter
but finally she seemed to and the
Girl on the floor sad: 1t worries me
). can't sleep. must go down stair
. and see if ! left it in the parlor. Tit
other one said. All right. an the frs
girl calmly took a lot of matches
!. lust as if she meant to light the ga
and went out of the room. but sh'
didn't 60 any farther than the roon
where a man was sleeping. She tOlt
| him she had found a mar under he
bed. He thought at first it was tina
, same old man wOlnc are Away
+. finding. She convinced him finally
an he Went out an got help.
.'She came back into the roon
alone. and in "A few minutes the me-
F, burst in and snaled the fellow froI
!, under the bed. He vas Il completel
fooled man. an said that woman wa
so cool an natural about it that h
"a never should have suspected her i
q the world. But the best part of
was that after the first woman le!
the room the other was just as quit
and happy there as a baby. 81;
didn't suspect anything. an when sh
found that there had been a man III
v der the bed all the time she just u
and tainted away. That's how
woman can fool a burglar il sh
(. keeps her wits about her.
# "One foolish thing that ON q
y is in getting their hushandsto get Il
Y at n noise and go chasing aroun
+ the house to locate it. Half the me
II who hear a noise in the house won
|, think it had some good explanation
ii an turn over an 20 to sleep agail
y But their wives won't le' EN-. The
a make 'em get out of bed and {
i roaming around hunting for possib
thieves. That's where the mischi
y comes in. The man don't stand
te good a show as the woman does.
he the woman would only turn owe {
t. 20 to sleep herself she'd a V "a goo
many of the lives that r 10
d. through burglars.
"All thieves know that women a
* their greatest dangers. an nine tent
~ of the burglars who r captured g
is caught through women; but it q
IT, uends. as /, said, on the woman
&c keeping coola an usin her wits."-Ne
York Recorder.