The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-13
THEY FEAR WOMEN.
A BURGLAR TALKS OF HIS BUSINESS
!. OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL.
Babies and Little Dogs Also Disliked by
the Midnight Prowler, Because They
Can't Be Kept Quiet.

AN yer expect me ter tell yer how
woman can catch a burglar? That's
The greatest yet. Yer make me laf.n
It's a tradition with women to be-
come scared merely at the mention of
a burglar. Perhaps if they only knew
how to handle burglar, and if scien-
tific instruction in the art of burglar
capturing We're made public, women
would get possession of their faculties
and meet all unlawful intruders with
self-possession. Second story burg
lars are the class of thieves that
women are most apt to turn against.
That was the kind of man found by a
female reporter for the N Y. Recorder
In the back room of little eating
house down in back street. He had
answered to the charge and knew all
of the details of the delicate business.
"That's a great joke. The idea of a
thief telling women how to catch a
thief. They know how now too fast
for us. Why, I'd rather run up agin a
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 female
Tell a woman how to catch a thief?
Well, l should smile. l guess not
much"
"Well, if you were sent into house
and found woman when you hadn't
expected to, and she grabbed YOU
around the neck and hung tight SO you
couldn't get away, what would you do?
Would that be a good way to surprise a
burglar?"
"That's just the gag a 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 of the greatest
second-story men there was. He was
called Long Frank. The house had
been piped. You know no thief eyer'd
go into a crib until he knew about the
way the place was run. He would have
it watched, and every light and every
room in the house would be known be-
fore he went. In this room they had
seen woman undress and take off her
jewels and put something under pill
low. When Frank got in 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
drumstick around the neck with both
arms. Frank flung his arms around
her body and hauled her out 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, 4 don't want to hurt
you, but if you raise 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
though everything in the room. She
was SO scared she never raised sound.
She was paralyzed. Frank got away
all right.
"No, l don't think 'twonld do
woman much good to try to catch hold
of burglar much of anywhere. Shed
be pretty apt to get hurt, without
frightening the thief away. We all
hate screaming woman, but yelling
don't catch the fellow very often.
What 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 ont Of Ave. A woman with
q gun amt much count. The best pro-.