The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-22
AFTER CHURCH FUNDS
GEORGE FATE HAS AN EXPERIENCE
WITH A BURGLAR.
Small Amount of Sunday Evening Col
Iections Taken-A Dash Through
u Window.

George Fate had an exciting experience
Sunday night at his residence, on Tacoma
avenue with a burglar who had sized up
Mr.. Fate as a good victim. Mr. rate
turned on the burglar. chased him through
a glass window and over the back yard
fence, but with the burglar went Mr.. rate
trousers and the Sunday evening coiiec-
ton of the Englewood Christian Church, OF
which Mr.. Fate is treasurer Inc matter
was reported to the police Sunday night
and again yesterday morning and they are
working on a very fair clew.
The women of the Englewood Chrlsuan
Church conducted a dining booth at the
state fair last week and despite the finan-
cial failure of the fair itself they were Tor
tunate enough to net $3.50 for the beneht
of the church building fund. The gross
receipts amounted to much more than this.
Tt is believed that some one acquainted
with the affairs of the congregation and
the efforts of the good women of the
church Jumped at the conclusion that all
this wealth in the State fair venture would
be kept in the family stocking at the rate
household and that Sunday night would be
a good occasion to get this money. MT.
Fate, however, as treasurer of the church'
had it safely deposited in bank. His wire
was chairman of the committee that had
the dining booth in charge and when she
and her husband walked home from church
they were very happy to think the church
had been so fortunate on the week. Mr.
Fate had the church collections of the
evening" amounting to probably So or IS.
in his trousers pockets and when he retired
he threw the trousers on chair.
A short time after he turned out the cleo
trio lights in his house he hoard a noise
and relighting the house made a search,
but found no stranger inside. he went
back to bed and was hardly doing when
he felt something brush his forehead. He
jumped up quickly and turned the Key TO
the electric light near his bed, but he
turned it too far and the light flashed and
went out. In this brief space of light he
bounced out of the room in a Jiffy, with
Mr. Fate following. The burglar rushed
out into the kitchen and took header
| through the kitchen window like a circus
| ing the glass and slight frame into so
| many fragments that there was hardly a
vestige left BY the time Mr. Fate reached
/ the back fence the burglar was gone. With
| of the neighborhood, but he obtained nc
/ trace of the marauder further than the
! footprints in the alley Yesterday morning
] the trousers were found in a neighboring
| clubhouse, but the money was all gone
| Mrs Fate had an experience with another
| intruder Saturday, when she discovered
| two young men robbing her peach tree
! When she approached one of the young
men attempted to hide behind a very thir
peach tree Mrs. Fate hurled crock al
| hitting him the average woman would
| under the circumstances. She made a sec
| ond attack with a dish pan and by The
! time she had thwacked the young man five
| battered the dishpan she succeeded in driv
ing him from the premises.