The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-02
TEE HErIRED BURGLAR.
ne E~aeounters = Burglar AIsrr, syster or
Astontshtug effectiveness

AsN0nNNnNnR EMENNNWNHNANs
"ors ntubt ,.,s /" s.id tho retired burglar.
81 vent into a Nous. In , village In western
Co,n.cttc,, o,,o,,no M, , cellar v,r1ox a.
u.u.tIv dbd ,ha, I ,.a. la,. /. IA "a mot I'm diaturb
the f,ila Lu,Lsj or,rnd tho cellar aud lo-
cat.,i tho st,trs an,l storted nm About three
,u.r,a,s ~ ,La wsv M, ,L.v mazda n sbarp turn
90 a., i.f, h,l 40 ip,,,ny a, nv riuht hand
and nv Ismn In NV lsf,. a, ns Ia Ie ali ready
.,rec,i,y d, "a, mo lam J,wr nm the ,ou .,e,
and gently prv ,bs door omen. and | vas going
along com fortably cnonvh when inst a. was
steppinv I'M nj tbe turn 4 rome stretched across
c,ugh, m, unJsr,ba chi, aud ,,,nIsi m. oyer
,i,,vn .,,i,s TLor, uas Id ~. s,,n. w,t -,
IN. r.I,ar m 4. sti. .nJ NJ r.I nm tho ,,ho,
a., thor. wa ,,,Li,, a. ,rat, 4, a,t ius,
,uubla,l dn,yn buru.j aInnu so,,ctIinv
scattered ,t,ry do,,n win nm. yvb.no. hanging
,I,Un Tho .,.ns over mn. ami urd.r ms aud
.r,rni NJ. ctastn,, ,,.au ,Lo wny ,,o,n mi
uh.n I ANAL, ou, =, III. ,,ii,r i,,,on, ,b.,
Thing was living ,cross me rhes, II vns IN.
,o.I shny., Witch b.d .xid.r,Iy he.n s,,u,I
IN ayains, H.. r,n. a,,i yhich I lad i,rr.d
lnosr.
m, IA. ,,ors, thing of ali v,s tha, my l,mn
uas brnL.. / ,o.t my Jimmy mn III. w,v d,yyn
I'm, I hnny nm I'm my Iamn. hut noy ~. Iiybt
vas am .,d ,bs glsss ,,s hr,l. and n. siiI,
.a. t,n,u,ot o,,,,,i 4, Fem, ,r1 ,,uLl ma,
Wv" -, .a iu, :" -" ivy
Nhlh is ! WI sl'Nuu III ! va III JlhihiNs
and then | waited to see II I'd woke anybody
IN 1tdn., b.ar o,rbod, and ~, ,tar,.J
w. ~ ~ ~ 80 y ," a,,
again, ana TINS time | felt my way up the STAIRS
carefully to the door. | found it unlocked. and
I hal ,nt n or., ah,u, mi, finch .b,,td tbinL
: low =, y NV" 80 80 y" , "p"' "'"
when ! heard a iittie bit or a scrarihg ON the
other side. and the next instant the dreadfulest
racNet 'nat ahyUouy ever neoru' ,ne laIlInk oia
dIshpah that must nave been hanging OH me
other side on the door knoll or the key and at
the potato masher don't know, because
,inan nnon ,ny ha,d
This ,i,ny 70 IN. cellar o,s,ai fran y inn.
square hall or entry way that had. as ! learned
l, f..Iir, d,,r a., ,La ler, 20 III, ti,cL.r I
ny leel'ns' " ooor w 'he 'el,' 0 Il h',rheh,
suppose. ana one To the right ] guessed, into the
front hall, waited again, but no sound from
nm stairs. ,o turned IN tbe RIGHT and open.d
~ - W 49, ~ - w p'"'u
mat door. ana stuuiOleu the hrst thihg over n
chair close by In the hall, and almost broke my
snips r-i, along and found a ro,vo NJ chairs
80
standing close together from That door clean to
the front door. | sat down in one of them and
nurscl my chin and v.,,od sin nn sound ord
, ,.toJ 80. 80 ~, -. ~ ,ia,, .iia To-.
and ,urnsd og ~ Tho Iem and into N. n,rpar
.rI hacl fro,, ,h,, i,,n IN. di,inn r,on Co., a
auu 20 ~" ."a ~ - ioo"' !,
began to feel encouraged. Hui in the dining
room there was nothing but plated spoon. and
lust as we'll a, though I'd had an electric light.
In they had any silver they had carried n I'M
stairs, a. some people do al night.
81 turned back into The hall. and Croped my
way through that row of chairs TO the foot Of
the stairs, 10 make sure OF the first step i'm the
dark stepped high and Stepped into a pan OF
water on the bottom step. That made me mad,
Of il and started on No. Al about the third step
my leg struck a string that was strung across
these stairs. and set a bell a ringing that was
hanging on il: and kicking that string started
down on me IRON above, toosened / suppose by
another string tied to the one had kicked, a
shower OF tin pe plates: and 1 had got INV leg
tangled up in some way in the string across the
stairs, and as struggled to get free the bell
kent on ringing and the pie plates rafting. and
presently / fell over a wash boiler that had been
set on the stair. n step or two up. and brought
that down on me.
' y.s fnunderipu around In thia tin,vara