The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-02

BY CHARLES b. LEWIS.

whole block to patrol. For minute or
two Uncle Billy looked so confident the
president wondered if there was not some
thing in it. Then he felt amused at the
idea and said:
well, Uncle Billy, you are our burglar
catcher, you know. Perhaps you'd better
sleep in the bank here for few nights"
ON do it, and III catch burglars. too"
exclaimed the delighted old man.
1t was arranged that he should he left in
the hank at night and he was given an
unloadcd double-barreled shotgun for a
weapon, and received many cautions To
give You fair idea of what the robbers
were after, must explain that the safe,
which stood outside the vault, was only for
day use. At the close of business each dav
everything was deposited in the vault,
which was of brick, with heavy iron door,
and supposed to he burglar proof As
| Uncle Billy could not yet into the vault.
and no burglar inside could get out, the
bank people laughed as they asked each
other how he was going to work it to CAP
turc anybody. Further he was to he
locked in the bank, with no way of getting
! out.
On the second night of Uncle Blly's
guardianship something happened which
i"rkvlle is talking about yet.
That day the firm of White & Gregg
drew out their deposit, claiming they were
going to buy farm. That night at ten
o'clock while Uncle Billy was taking IA
smoke on his cot near the vault, before
going to sleep he heard suspicious sounds
in the vault. He listened and listened
again, and after few minutes was salts
fled that robbers were within They could
not have lot there only through hole cut
through the floor of the office above. The
old man Was not bit ratified. lie had
been appointed burglar catcher in the
bank and here were the burglars. His
lea was to catch them instead of driving
them off 1t was lucky thing for the
First National that some o. the officials
with II key to the front door had left it
lying on table Uncle Billy saw it as he
yonderel how i,a ,ro,,l ,,o+ o,+ -, 49,
street. He saw the niuht Waterman down
at the end Of the block, but had no use for
him. The way to catch the burglars was
to ret into the rooms above and the old
man crrpt softly u,stairs and tried tha
door of White 4 Graop's nflirp to find II
locked. He lifted thr sash of tha hall
,indon. crppt aloro the rornica and o,a of
,h, Office Windows was fn,u,l uo,,stero3
! lie rrnpt in. tiptor,l ocr,ss the t,yo rooms
and into fine yp,, a:,p lint I,e ,,,. no+ at al,
sarDri~pl At what lr.s,w
\ square hole had h,ru rut IN the cop+or
of t',r floor. M o,,.nin,,.,,,l. tbrou,,h +,,,
b;;rN vault and tlrr. p,.,, h,l 4, s.o,,,lol IL,
, ropp, I'u.l,. p,Ily ro,,Id son. q, ii,,ht do,,.,
there and hear men at yyol, His frs,
move was TO draw nm tle rome II was NOT
N ssrd for So, rraI miont,s h,, those helov,
When if was missed =, man WINS boo,tod nv,
to find the muzzlc OF a sho, ~un Thrust int,
his face and hear ,ncIe niIIv cav.
You try that aoain and III blow your
head off,
The man lronnrd hack and +ho no -
niuutr Tnclr Hillv. was ho;,od b,, White
from the bottnn of tbn ,,,,lt lIo ox-
nj lined that he had discovarel ,ha bolo IN
thc nnor mazda .durin,, hi, ,hsaroo r.o,,,
I'm office AND lind l,s.,,,lo1 >, ;,,.o,+;
rate. Mr. Grnrr WINS tharo with HIM he
said, and ais, a friend lie talked oliblv
and cooxinoIv and asked ,he old ma, =,
ln,ycr then tho roma Wbo, iva ,ef,soa
thev ofYa,eI hin, sIo 500 szo ,rh.o +ba,
turned TO threats and fpdin,, him still
iiym and aetermined snverol shots ,,ors
fired at linn from rovoI,.r, ua uos ~,
his ,,r,rd ,.,,;,s+ tbo,,, a,,,l ,,,y,,, 80, :;
came one of the trio was boosted mn but