Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-19
STORIES ABOUT BURGLARS.
Some Plucky Women That Bravely
Rose to IN Emergency.

From the Chicago Tribune
There are a lot of anlateurs-tramps,
pickpockets, sneak-thieves ard sucll-who
are driven by hard necessity to take up
burglary as side line in the winter. Burg
lars Of this class ere seldom as bold, and
never as skillful as the regular practiton-
ers. 1t was probably one of these burglars
who broke up the ladies' card party on
Lake avenue the other evening. He had
very likely noted the announcement In the
society columns that 1t was to be a card
party at which only ladies would be pres
ent, and had presumed upon this fact in
making his raid. To the feminine mind,
generally, If there Is anything among fierce
wild animals more terrible than the mouse
1T is the burglar. The card party seems to
have been an average assembly in this
spect, for the ladies shrieked and stam-
peded. and the visitor got away.
1t was fortunate for him that there was
no one among them who had the GOODNESS
displayed by the woman, who, while ar
ranging her hair preparatory to going to
bed, saw the reflection of man in her
mirror He was hidden just where she had
always heard Of burglars hiding-under the
bed. She calmly went on arranging her
hair, and then, having laid all her vauabies
in her Jewel box, walked over and put
them on shelf in the wardrobe, carelessly
for a moment and returned suddenly Just
in time to see the thief step inside the
wardrobe Then, of course, she did the
obvious thing. When the door was IN
locked again he was hauled out by two big
policemen, badly frightened and half-smoth-
cred
Another case where thief hid under the
bed and came to grief happened on Ohio
street, during the worlds fair when the
town was full of the light-fingered gentry.
He had been shadowing wealthy down
town business man for more than a week.
His plan was to slip into the house in the
evening by following the owner home hide
and later in the night rob the place He
followed his intended victim several times
as he confessed after his capture but al
ways encountered a policeman somewhere
in the neighborhood and was afraid to go
any farther. At last he succeeded in get
ting In, however, when the front door was
left unlocked through tho carelessness of
q servant, and. making his way upstairs
went into room and hid under the bed
This happened to belong to the two daugh-
tiers of the household. The bed was low.
and the intruder passed several uncom-
fcrtable hours until about 10 o'clock when
the young ladies came upstairs. They had
devoted themselves assiduously to athletic
exercises while at school, and usually had
a romp before retiring. On this occasion
they got into an unusually lively pillow
fight. The burglar became so absorbed In
the issue of the combat that he made an
Involuntary movement to obtain a better
view, and in so doing betrayed himself
Maud, there's somebody under this bed-'
cried one of the girls. but instead Of run
ming away, she would be supposed to do
under the circumstances. she dropped on
one knee. and, finding her suspicious con-
firmed, seized him by one foot, while her
sister, equally undaunted, took hold of the
other, and they dragged him out into the
middle Of the floor. at the same time shout
ing in high soprano voices:
"Papar"
"Police,"
"BurglarI'
Papa"
Papa came, and, after awhile, the police.
and among them the burglar was captured.
He is now at Joliet.