The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-03
EXPERIENCE or A BURGLAR.
He Caught the shiyers From "A Girls
Corpse.


Corpse.
From the New York Journal.
There was a deathly stiffness in the
room. felt unstrung, nervous. / CROPPED
my way through the thick darkness, when
suddenly my fingers touched woman's
hair"
Old Tim" Brady 70 years of age, once
a bank robber, burglar AMI all-round
crook, whose exploits made him famous
in theecrimnal annals Of the country, was
telling Of his life. over thirty years have
been spent behind stone walls and iron
bars, but he is ending his long career as
an honest man, He lives in New Rochelle,
and picks up scanty eXistence.by doing
odd chores.
whatever l did / never let myself for
get that | was a gentleman, and that l
was brought up under church influences"
said the old man. Il don't mean that /
remained a church communicate for ]
couldn't have done that without being
hypocrite; but l mean that l never took
money from a poor man-that l was al
ways careful of my associates, and that
in short, l was a gentleman"
His parchment face, creased with
thousand wrinkles, was undecipherable;
his blue eyes flashed with an interpretive
CLEAN; his mouth, under a dropping gray
mustache, was oddly puckered; in his easy
bearing he was superior to the shabby
clothing that he wore.
1--WE made plenty of money, and I've
had good Clothes he said. And he add
ed, with a queer twinkle: i've worked
harder for my money too, than bank pres
idents."
When asked what he considered the
most curious incident of his long career
of crime, he told the tale of what happen
ed upon a Christmas-tide many, many
years ago when he went back to visit his
parents in his childhood home in YER
mont
Il had been busy for quite while at my
profession even then, but the Old folks
hadn't the slightest suspicion as TO what
il was. And / was on my way back, WIN
my pockets full of money, bound TO make
them happy, If ] could. / should have liked
to put a good deal of the money into pres
ents but-weH, circumstances made 1t adj
visable for me to get away cut Of town by
the first train. 1t was Christmas eve and
bitter cold AS the train was not TO reach
my old home till after midnight / settled
myself comfortably in a corner of my seat
and before I knew it was asleep When
awoke ] found that / had been done;
that for the first and only time in my life
a pckpocket had swiped my money. He
had taken all Of il, ana even my Watch
and railroad ticket.
Il was not in a position to make trouble
about it," he said, with a reminiscent
chuckle, "and so at the next station !
dropped off the train. 1t was town
had never been in before, but l at once
started I'd into the residence district 1t
was very cold, but the air was sharply
exhiIarating. Underneath my feet the
packed snow creaked and above in the
sky twinkled thousands of stars. Some
how-and you will laugh at this, and /
don't know how TO explain II myself
felt proud that / was man Of educa-
ton, and that l had been raised under
church influences.
.erhe streets were deserted Here and
there lights shown from windows, and al
times l caught the sound of laughter and
songs. But most of the houses were dark.
I walked along, looking for the right
house to go into. 1t comes to be sort
Of instinct you know. In few minutes
I came TO the one l wanted and went in
II was noticeable In the various stories
that old Brady told that he always re-
ferred 70 his deeds simply Here, for ex-
ample, he merely went into" the house.
There was no elaboration Of termination Of
how he accomplished what TO the unini-
tiated would be a difficult task.
1.-THE family was all asleep, and gath
cred up what / conveniently could from
several different rooms, made them into
a bundle, and went out But hadn't got
all l wanted. The swag was good enough
in its way, but it wasn't what needed
to have with me in going back to the old
people for Christmas. And / didn't take
as much as 1 might, for / didn't want to
be hampered with big bundle. What ]
wanted was q big roll Of bills. Well, !
went out of that house and went into the |
one next door. I went through the kitch-
en- into the hall and then into larger
room.
1T was pitchy dark, and from the mo-
ment / entered the room l felt a queer
feeling that there was danger there. There