The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03
TAKEN FOB A BURGLAR.
the Nice Warm Reception Polite Hus-
band Got From Deaf One.

There might have been a tragic ending
to the domestic felicity of young married
couple who occupy fat in Clinton ave-
nue., Brooklyn, few days ago, had it not
been for the Intervention of their neigh
bors. The young couple have been mar
ried only month and took possession of
their fat only two weeks ago. They knew
little about their neighbors.
Last Wednesday evening just about bed
time there was SO violent a ringing of the
electric doorbell in the fat opposite that
the newly welded young man decided that
something was wrong. He opened the
door, and finding nothing but darkness in
the hallway raped on the door of the Hat
where the ringing was going on. There
was no response, and the young man, de-
string to be neighborly, went down stairs
to admit the person who was doing the
ringing. He unlocked the outer door and
found there an elderly woman freighted
with packages.
'Oh, thank you,'' she exclaimed II
thought I never should get in Ny hus-
band up stairs is little hard of hearing,
and 1 went out shopping and left my keys
behind
No trouble at all, assure you,' suave-
ly replied the young man, leading the way
up stairs with lighted taper
Il left my husband reading, and he
must have dropped asleep, else I am sure
he would have heard me- - said the elder
~ woman as they walked up the stairs.
When she reached the landing where
her fat was, she knocked at the door, and
a new difficulty presented itself. She
could not get in there either, and then she
said her husband must have gone out.
The newly welded pair stood in the door
way of their fiat helpless spectators of her
predicament. The young man raped
tiercely on the door, but there was no re-
sponse and then they began trying keys.
None was found to fit.
'How embarrassing I'm so sorry to
trouble you, but now that think Of it
can get in by the door leading to the fire
escape. l left that open when I was at
the icebox,'' said the elderly woman.
The young man looked at her size
which was considerable, and smiling
thought of the five foot railing she would
have to climb to get to that fire escape
door.
IF you will allow me. madam, I'll get
over and let you in, - he volunteered
''Oh, you are SO kind don't know how
I can thank you.' murmured the elderly
woman.
The young man stepped briskly enough
through the private hallway of his flat to
the fire escape, while the elderly woman
and the young wife chatted in the hall
way. They heard the young man climb
over the railing which divided the fire
cape in the rear, and both smiled reassur-
ingly as they heard the fire escape door
open. The story of what occurred after
this was gathered from a comparison of
notes by the young married man and the
husband of the elderly woman, who was
little hard of hearing
The young man found the elderly wo1n-
ans husband sitting at table in the din
ing room, into which the fire escape door
opened. He had an open book in his lap
and was apparently in deep reverie The
young man made considerable noise in en-
tering and coughed to attract the hard of
hearing mans attention. The latter made
no movement, and the young man, as
Stunning his most genial smile, walked up
to him. The elderly man was sitting with
his back toward the young man, who had
prepared himself with nice little speech
of introduction. No sooner had he touched
the hard of hearing mans shoulder than
there was roar, and the young man
found himself clutched with a grip that
threatened to crush all the breath out of
him. The hard of hearing man yelled
''Helpl Policel' at the top of his voice,
while the two women in the hallway al
most collapsed when they heard the noise.
He was an active young man and man
aged by exerting all his strength to squirm
out of the grasp of his captor and ran
through the fiat. The hard of hearing
man raced after him, and the young man
jumped into the bathroom, the door of
which was conveniently open. Then it be-
came his turn to yell for assistance, for his
pursuer was making frantic efforts to
open the door and was still yelling at the
top of his voice.
The shouts of the men in the fat ard
the screams of the women in the hall soon
aroused the entire house, and the occu-
pants came tumbling out of their rooms
in various stages of undress. The tenants
thought the fiat was afire, and some of
them ran into the street. Others gathered
around the two women in the hallway and
tried to learn from their excited speech
what the trouble was. In the midst of it
all the hard Of hearing man opened the
hall door and was dumfounded at the sight
of his fainting wife and the assembled
tenants.
The wife revived when she saw him
SAFE and then she tiled to explain what
had occurred. The bathroom door was
opened after considerable shouting, and
the young man was found about to drop
down the window of the airshaft. 1t took
IS minutes to explain the circumstances
ell around-New Y ork Sun.