The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-14

s s EsHssssA merely at the
burglar. Pcrhaps'if they only knew how
to handle burglar, and if scientific in.
struction in the art of burglar captur-
ing were made public, women would
get possession of their faculties and
meet all unlawful intruders with self
possession.
Sccond-story burglars are the class
OF thieves that women are most apt to
run against That was the kind of a
man who sat in the back room of
little eating house down in back
street. lie had answered to the charge
and knows all of the details of the
delicate business.
That's great joke The idea of n
thief telling women how to catch a
thief. They know how now too fast
for MS. Why, I'd rather run up agin
dozen men than one petticoat She al
ways screams at the wrong time for
herself, if it isn't the wrong time for
us. Oh, we hate to buck up agin a fe-
male. Tell n woman how to catch a
thief? Well, / should smile! l guess
not much"
"Well if you were sent into n house
expected to, and she grabbed you round
the neck and hung tight to you so that
you couldn't get away, what would you
doP Would that be good way to sur
prise a burglar?"
That's just the gag woman tried
on big Frank Mccoy up at Tarrytown,
when the masked gang was round.
Frank got into the second-story win
dow. He was one o the greatest sec
ond-story men there was. He was
called Long Frank. The house had
been piped. You know no thief evcr'd
go into n crib until he knew about the
way the place was run. He would
have III watched, and every light and
every room in the house would be
known before he went. In this room
they had seen a woman undress and
take off her jewels and put some thing
under pillow. When Frank got in he
found Il woman in bed. He reached
under the pillow to find what was
there. The woman walked up and she
didn't raise a peep. She grabbed him
as tight as adrumstick around the neck
with both arms. Frank flung his arms
around her body and hauled her ont of
bed, carried her across the room and
got his pal outside. He set the woman
down on the window seat. Now,
madam said he, Il don't want to hurt
You, but if you raise a peep, my pal,
he'll fire that gun he's got on yer.
Ye'd better keep still, and if YER do.
yer won't get hurt Yell be as safe as
in yer own bed Then Frank went
through everything in the room. She
was SO scared, she never raised a
sound. She was paralyzed. Frank got
away all right. No, l don't think
'twould do woman much good to try
to catch hold of a burglar much of any
where. She'd be pretty apt to get
hurt, without frightening the thief
away. We all hate n screaming wom-
an, but yelling don't catch the fellow
very often. What a woman wants is
to keep cool. If she finds man in her
room. she don't want ter scream and
run. She don't want ter faint neither
If she keeps cool and uses her wits,
she'll jug him four times out of five.
"A woman with a gun amt much
count. The best protection woman
in a house alone can have is little,
nasty whiffet of IL dog-one O. them
black beasts that yell at everything.
till he has seen him five hundred times.
He barks at everything. Then babyl
I'd rather meet dozen men than run
against little baby. The kid always
cries"
whats the matter, Mr.. Burglar,
with big dogs?"
'Oh. they can be handled. They'll
eat, and then yer know where they are
always. But these little whiffets, yer
never know when there's one of them
around.
'Whiffets an babies an screaming
women an newspapers, thcm's what
makes burglars life tough one. An
it's women who are always up to the
paper racket. Didn't ever hear of pa
persP That's funny! Why, when the
gang was up at Tarrytown. and no
body knew what night there might be
crack from Yonkers, for miles up
there want many houses along the riv-
or but had lay out of papers. News
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