The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27
STORIES ABOUT BURGLARS.
Seine Plucky Women That Bravely
Rose To An Emersency.


There are d lot of amateurs-tramps.
piok-pockets, sneak-thieves and such-who
are driven BY hard necessity to take up
burglary as side line in the winter
Burglars of this class are seldom as bold,
and never as skillful as the regular prac-
titioners. It 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 announce
ment in the society columns that it was
to he a card party at which only ladies
would be present, and had presumed upon
this fact in making his raid. TO the fem
mime mind. generally, If there is any
thing more fierce wild animals more ter
rlble 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 of a man in her
mirror He was hidden just where she
had always heard of burglars hiding
under the bed. She calmly went on ar
ranging her hair and then. having laid all
~ fftAHrt1iNe A4t liEl ItNstl DON walked
over and put them on a shelf in the ward
robe, carelessly leaving the door ajar. She
left the room for a moment and returned
suddenly. Just i'm 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 frightened and
half-smothered.
Another case where a 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 a
wealthy down town business man for
more than week. His plan was to slip
into the house in the evening by follow
ms the owner home, hide ana later in the
night rob the place. He followed his in
tended victim several times, as he CON
fessed after his capture but always en-
Countered a policeman somewhere in the
neighborhood and was afraid TO go anv
farther. At last he succeeded in getting
in however, when the front door was left
unlocked through the Carelessness of a
servant and, making his way upstairs
went into a room and hid under the bed.
This happened 10 belong to the two daugh-
tiers Of he household The bed was low
and the intruder passed several uncom-
Portable hours, until about 10 O'Clock.
when the young ladies came upstairs
1nGy NdQ devoted themselves aSSlQuOuSlV
to athletic exercises while at school, and
usually had romp before retiring On
this occasion they got into an unusually
lively pillow-h3ht The burglar became
so absorbed in the issue of the combat
that ne made an involuntary movement
to obtain better view, and in so doing
betrayed himself
Maud, there's somebody under this
bedn' cried one Of the girls. but instead
of running away, as she would be supposed
TO do under the circumstances, she dropped
on one knee. and finding her suspicious
confirmed, 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 shouting in high soprano voices:
Papa"
Police"
Burglar"
"PapaH'
Papa came and, after awhile. the police,
and hev@ fJaa