The sun., 1897-12-05
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rive Unfortunate Experiences That MADE uira
shy Of MnAdnra.

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ladders when you find them handy" said
tho retired burglar. may seem like very con-
venient way of getting into open second-story
windows but after two experiences that had
with them gave them up and stuck to the old.
fashioned way of doors and cellar windows.
In suburban town that visitcd once I
FOUND EN- painting Queen An ne house In the
RAINBOW style that they used 10 paint houses In,
ana that | suppose. they paint EN- IN still TO
some extent. The en- had laddersnp, no stage.
and noticed that at tho close OF the day one Of
them was painting near q window, and I won
dered II he'd leave his ladder there when ho
stopped work at night l snuntered around
that way after dark and there 1t was. and It was
summer and the window was wide open. Most
folks In tho country, when their houses are
being painted, are apt 10 DO n little skittlsh
about the ladders. and IL one should bo left like
this one they bopretty sure to close the window
near 1t and lock 1t: but these folks didn't ap-
pear 70 bo disturbed. And as far as my getting
into tho house was concerned. It wa? Just about
to walk in at the front door with it unlocked.
went up that ladder and in at the window with.
out the siightcst trouble; and there was nobody
be- be nS
cred up what stun there was worth carrying of
and went back to that room and the open win
-" mouth after that, as was walking across
the platform of a station on the same road that
was man laid his hand on my arm and says:
NOV, Now, don't make fuss about Y and itll be =
| In him the detective OF tho road, q man that
knew meant BUSINESS, and went along with
| him without any row.
being man OF brains he had gone up to. the
house where the robbery was as soon as he had
heard Of II, which was the day after. There he
| had nut himself in the burglars place and fol-
| lowed In his footsteps as near Rs he could. He
had had tho ladder placed in just the same posi-.
into the window. and followed over his track in
side the house as close as ho could guess ct 1t:
out onto the ladder. and so down TO the ground.
| The ladder Went up on tho right. hand side OF
ana hs SSts srss ro tho
sill to tho ladder. and he noticed that when he
had got his foot on the ladder he swung back a
frame and the clapboards. HeEave a little push
again onto tho ladder. Then he stopped and
looked at the spot where his elbow had touched.
called up tho painters and learned that on the
morning betore-that was the morning after
ST tbe u1do R f n
and on the, frame itself had been smudged 3
little, and they'd touched it over. That was all
time tim on 10 had been been looking for man nan with
two paint spots of ifferent colors on the left
elbow OF his coat, and was the man. >,
rubbed the paint OF. ! had rubbed some OF it
off. and was going to rub the rest Off the next
day. and then l kept setting that next day
ahead as we are apt to do, and finally wound
up by letting it go altogether, the rest OF 1t.
There wasn't one chance in Il thousand OF its
leading to anything, and even as 1t was might
have talked myself out of the paint, but had u
watch that Ia got in tho house in my pocket,
and that settled it.
THAT was one ladder, this was the other:
Hooking around the outside of a house in
the country one night found ladder lying on
the ground against the rear of the house. They
had some frnit trees in the garden, and sup
pose they'd been working over them, or on the
| grape arbor, may be, and were going with the
work next day. and had left the ladder out
instead OF taking II down cellar for the
night. 1t was summer, and on the side ol
the house there were two windows open in one
ROOM thought I'd set the ladder mp then and
go in one of those windows. set the ladder VI
and getting hold OF the window sill and step
ping up on the ends of the side pieces of the
ladder, l was able to get in tolerable easy.
went through the house and gathered up wha
| there to get. and was turning to go from
| the last room when knocked picture over or
a bureau and woke up the man that WAS sleep
| ing in the room. j went back to the room II
| come in at and backed out the window. ant
hung down for the ladder, and, by cracks! |
wasn't there. But I'd got to go all the same
, and let go and dropped. saw the ladder as
was going down at the next window ia go
out tho wrong W indow. turned half owe
my left arm.
81 got away that time. hut I was laid up 70
six weeks, and after that didn't fool any NOR
with ladders"