The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-10

Eg/ WH1FyrS} bee o n scared
w l=zzr--zggS->A merely at the
o. men til on of
burglar. Perhapsif they only knew now
TO handle e burglar, AID 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 iDtruders with self
possession.
Second-story burglars are the class
Of thieves that women are most apt to
run against. That was the kind of
man who sat in the back room OF a
little eating house down in back
street. He had answered to the charge
and knows ell of the details OF the
delicate business,
That's a great joke. The idea of a
thief telling women how to catch
thief They know how now too fast
for us. Why, I'd rather run up agin
dozen men than enc petticoat She al
ways screams at the wrong time for
herself, ii it isn't the wrong time for
rs. Oh, we hate TO buck up agin a fe-
male Tell n woman how to catch a
thief? Well / should Smiles guess
not much"
"Weli. if you were sent into house
and found q woman when You hadn't
expected to. and she grabbed you round
the neck and hung tight TO you so that
you couldn't get away, what would you
do? Would that be a good way to sur
prise burglar?"
That's just tho gag woman tried
on big Frank Mccoy up at Tarrytown,
when the masled gang was round.
Frank got into the second-story win
dow He was one o the greatest Sec
ond-stery men there was. He was
called Long Frank. The house had
been piped. You know no thief ever'd
90 into a crib until he knew about the
way the place was run- He would
have il watched, and every light and
every room in the house would be
known before he went In this room
they had seen n woman undress and
take off her jewels and put something
under pillow. When Frank got il he
found woman in bed He reached
under the pillow to find what was
there The woman walked up and she
didn't raise peep She grabbed him
as tight as Rdrunst1ck around the mock
witk 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 thu woman
down on the window seat, Now,
madam, said he, I 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. Iell be as cafe as
in yer own bed Then Frank went
through everything in the room. She
was so scarab, she never raised a
sound. She was psralyzed. Frank got
away all right. No, / don't think
'twould do a woman much good to try
to catch hold Of burglar much Of any
where. Shed be pretty apt to get
hurt, without frightening the thief
away. We all hate screaming WON
an, but yelling dent catch the fellow
very often. What woman wants is
to keep cool. If she finds a 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 a woman
in a house alone can have is little,
nasty whiffet of dog-one O. them
black beasts that yell at everything,
and won't make friends with feller
till he has seen him five hundred times
He barks at everything. Then baby!
I'd rather meet dozen men than run
against a 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 whifTets, yer
never know when there's one OF them
around
'Nhifets an babies an screaming
women an newspapers, them's what
makes burglars life a tough one. An
its women who are always up 70 the
| paper racket Didn't ever hear OF pa-
pers? That's funny! Why. when the
gang was up at Tarrytown. and no
body knew what night there might be
4 crack from Yonkers, for miles UP
there want many houses along the riT-
er but had q lay out OF papers News
/ papers was spread around the doors
an windows. on the floor, every night
before folks went ter bed The gang
got so they knew what folks had pa
| pers. Twas always where the woman
was alone. You couldn't get family
up there ter give away a paper A
newspaper was with gold No bur
glar viii Try ter cross paper The
wind comes in under the doors or
through n cracS. and the papers would
crack. II a mouse came cat and ran
across the paper everybody yelled
thief, ana tilc women all had Mysteries.
, There was two old maids up there that