The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-06-05

and which ] had Jared loose said the
retired burglar to New York Sun
man.
"But the worst thing Of all was that
my lamp was broke. lost my jimmy
on the way down, but | hung TO my
lamp; but now the light was out and
the glass was broke and the slide was
jammed around in front and could
not turn it. ! felt around till found
my jimmy. and then | waited to see If
I'd woke anybody up. | didn't hear
anybody and so | started again and
this tiue | felt my way up the stairs
carefully to the door. | found Il un.
locked and had got it open about an
inch, | should think. when | heard
little bit Of a scraping on the other side,
and the next instant the dreadfulest
racket that anybody ever heard, the
falling Of dishpan that must have
been hanging on the other side on the
door knob or key, and at the same time
what ! imagine must have been the
potato-masher-I don't know. because
| didn't look for it dropped from the
top of the door upon my head.
This door to the cellar opened from
little square hall or entry way that
had. as learned by feeling. a door to
the left, to the kitchen, ! suppose, and
one to the right, | guessed, into the
front hall. | waited again, but no
sound from upstairs, so ! turned TO the
right and opened that door and
stumbled the first thing over chair
close by i'm the hall and almost broke
my shins. | felt along and found "a
row of chairs standing close together
from that door clean TO the front door
sat down in one uf them and nurscd
my shin and waited. Still no sound
and tried again and got along all right
this time and turned of 10 the left and
into the parlor and back from that
into the dining-room, for wonder
without falling over anything. and
began to feel encouraged But in the
dining-room there was nothing but
plated spoons and forks, which, Of
course | could tell by the touch just as
well as though I'd had an electric
light II they had any silver they had
II carried upstairs. as some people dc
at night.
II turned back into the hall and
CROPPED my way through the rows OF
chairs to the foot of the stairs Tc
make sure of the first step in the dark
] ste pped high and stepped into pan
of water on the bottom step, That
made me mad, but it didn't make any
noise, and ! stepped out of it and start
ed on up. At about the third step my
leg struck a string that was strung
across these stairs. and set bell q
ringing that was hanging on it; and
kicking that string started down on
me from above, loosened | suppose by
another string tied To the one | had
kicked, "A shower of tin pie plates, and ]
had got my legs tangled up In some
way in the string across the stairs
and as struggled to get free the bell
kept on ringing and the pic plates
rafting, and presently | fell over e
wash boiler that had been set on the
stairs a step or two mp and brought
that down on me.
"As houndered around in this tin.
ware and strings and bells and things
] heard children's voices upstairs, and
a minute later heard steps in the hall
above, and could see i'm the blackness
up there the white of a nightgown at
the head of the stairs. Then something
came slamming against the banisters,
hitting me as il ratified down and
finally landed with great bang on
the floor among the chairs in the hall.
! The minute he threw it, whoever he
! was, he ran, and ! began to think il
was about time for me to go, too
had freed myself from the bellcord by
this time and | got down the stairs
and into the hail again, and there
this time ] stepped on a baseball bat
| that was what had come banging
down at me from above-that rolled
| out from under me and upset me once
more among those chairs
~ got up and opened the front door
1T wasn't locked and got cut on the
piazza. Before | had got to the top
front step heard horn blowing from
! an upstairs window on the side OF
the house, and an instant later a
shot from revolver and a big bell
| ringing. There was a late moon just
rising and little light now, and as
went away | looked back and saw
three children all in white, all leaning
out OF one window on the second story
II didn't wait to inquire abont IL
but it was just as simple as rolling of
log The children's parents had had
70 go away somewhere over night
sickness or something, and had left the
children alone. The young folks had
forgot to lock the doors, but there
really wasn't any necessity of locking
'em, with such burglar alarm system
Rs that"