The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-31
THE BURGLARS BEST JOB.
taken as Dead by n Doctor TO Dissect
He Recovered and Robbed Him.

Taken as Dead by boc'or 10 bis~eCt +
He Recovered and Robbed Him.
All great men get their start in life I
some way or another, said the burglar,
and Pm no exception. When l was II +
years old l ran away from home in the /
country, where | lived with my uncle, /
a school teacher, and if l do say it my
self. | was one of his brightest and
sharpest scholars. l got to New York
as the usual runaway boy does, and
unlike most of them, / succeeded in
Guiding pursuit, and settled down to
business as a newsboy. 1t was con-
genial work, and l used to go to night
school. and soon was a leader among
the boys. BY the time l was II had
a position in a restaurant as a cashier,
but tie handling of the money was too
much for me, and one day ! skipped out
with 500 and went to San Francisco
For the next four years | kept getting
a little worse, but l never fell into the
hands of the police.
Then l got sick, and they put me in
city hospital, and ONE night | died.
mean that as far as they knew | was
dead. | didn't have any friends, and as
the young doctor who attended especi-
ally to me didn't get any pay for his
trouble, the authorities, to recompense
him somewhat. and to save funeral eX
penses, turned my body over to him,
and he took it to his Office for the usual
purpose. He laid me out on a table in
a back room about 1 o'clock one morn
ing. and left me there in the cold, while
he adjourned to some other part of his
house and went to bed, | suppose In
fact, / know, as you will see presently.
| don't know what time in the night
1t was or what was going ON around
me, but after while l began to come
to. and in few minutes | knew that
was not in the narrow little bed IN the
hospital. and in a few more minutes
began to be scared nearly to death for
| knew right away that was in the
hands of the doctors and in fair wary
to be chopped up. The fright gave me
strength, and / got up from the table
{ and was about to break away any
| where, so long as l got away when tbs
absence of clothes suggested that
get some. and | began to look around q
T. bit. | soon got into the doctors ward
t robe and it wasn't long until | hat
t dressed myself very we'll for ready
4 made things, and wasn't half as ba(
e scared as | had been. owing to a goot
:. drink of brandy | got out of a bottle
h came across.
l don't know why the burglar instinc
should have showed up at such a time
/, but the sense of safety that l felt il
4 knowing how easily ! could account 70
q, my presence in the house seemed t
!. urge me ON to getting as much valu
i, as l could out of the doctors house be
L fore my departure, and thanks to hi
carelessness and wealth. when finall
made my exit had a thousand or NOR
: dollars worth of jewelry, watches an
that sort, to say nothing about a hun
: dred dollars or so | got in cash.
fact, concluded the burglar. with
" heartfelt sigh. ! don't think that in a
1T the after years of my work. improve
es as it should have been by experience
t. study and practice, ever did a MOI
H. pleasant and profitable job than IN
er first one, to which, of course, was adde
Of the keen pleasure of the joke l la
rs played on the doctor