The record-union., 1895-01-19
GIRLS AND BURGLARS.
Peeping Under the Bed Not Always a
BootIess Custom.
Several Instances Where Timid Maid
ems Have Got the Better of
Bold House-BreakerS.

1t was probably an amateur burglar
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 it was to be a
card party at which only ladies would be
present and had presumed upon this fact
in making the raid. TO the feminine
| mind, generally, if there is anything
| among fierce wild animals more terrible
than the mouse it is the burglar. The
| card party seems to have been an average
assembly in this respect. for the ladies
shrieked and stampeded 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 ola man in her mir
ror. He was hidden where she hau always
heard of burglars hiding-under the bed.
She calmly went on arranging her hair
| and then, having laid all her valuables in
her jewel-boX, walked over and put
tnem on shelf in the wardrobe, care
lessly leaving the door ajar. She left the
room for moment and returned sud
! denly, just in time to see the thief step
inside the wardrobe. Then, of course,
| she did the obvious thing. When the
door was unlocked again he was hauled
| out by two big policemen badly fright
.ened and half smothered.
| 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 shadow
| ing wealthy downtown business man
! for more than week. His plan was to
| slip into the house in the evening by fol-
! lowing 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 always
encountered a policeman somewhere in
the uelghborhood and was afraid TO 60
any further. At last he succeeded in get
ting in, however, when the front door was
left unlocked through the carelessness Of
| servant, and making his way up the
stairs went into room and hid under
the bed. This happened to belong to the
two daughters OF the household. The
| bed was low, and the intruder passed
several uncomfortable honrs 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 romp before re-
| firing. 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 involun-
| tary movement to obtain better view
and in so doing betrayed himself
MAUD, there's somebody under this
| bed ~ cried one of the girls, but instead
of running away, as she would be sup
| posed to do under such circumstances,
she dropped on one knee, and, finding
| her suspicious confirmed, seized him by
one foot, while her sister, equally un-
daunted, took hold of the other and they
| dragged him out into the middle of the
| floor, at the same time shouting in high
| soprano voices:
"Papap
"POlicen'
Burglar !"
"Papan'
Papa came and after awhile the police,
! and among them the burglar was cap
| tured. He is now at Joliet
Still another instance in which house