Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-16
MEDICAL.
UNDERTAKES
REFUGE N A FIERY FURNACE.
4 Burglar Crawied Into Hot Air
Chamber to Escape the Police.

Chamber to Escape the Police.
From the New York Herald.
CHARLES Keller. a burglar. crcpt into iEe
hot air chamber OF ] glowing furnace early
Yesterday morning to escape the police. He
had entered the house of Mrs Elizabeth ".
AlGricn, where he had made himself thor
oughly at home. IFe hai packed up such of
the servants belongings - pleased him
and then had gore into the buffers pantry,
VI here he attacked a nIipce pie and Il bot
tie of Chateau la Rose.L II may have been
the mince pie ard it may have been the
fragrant wine WHICH inauced Keller to mi
tate the three righteous persons who de-
cined to do homage to- Moloch.
Keller is MS. Aidrica's special burglar.
He broke into the house in 1896 and MADE
away with Il quantity OF silverware. lie
stopped to teUpoGize with ciaret until
he fcli asleep on ihe laundfy bench He
got a year in the peniteGtiary. The home
OF Mrs. Aldrich was entered six months
ago, while the family was in the country,
and it was believed that Keller. having
duly done his bit" had returned to the
scene of his former operations.
lie had just cut a fresh quadrant of pie
at :. O'Clock yesterday morning when there
ca me tap at the has ament door. Police
man Braun had seen light in the kitchen
window and maze bold to inquire abou; it.
Keller cXtinguisned the gas.
Braun thought he heard some one walk
ing away in stockinged feet. He raped on
the pavcmt MT Tor assistance and Two other
policemen responded. Braun rang the door
| ell Of the house. Nary Martin. servant,
and Miss Wakefield. trained nurse, came
&c the door. The policemen explained that
they suspected there was IL burglar III the
house. When they learned that none of
the servants had been down stairs since
II o'clock that night they We're sure of il.
Every room III the house was searched.
Neither in basement nor cellar could the
policemen find any trace Of the burglar.
They were about to give Up when they de-
CldCi to return tc the cellar. Near the
fur ace, one of them stumbled over pair
of mems shoes.
Maybe he's in the furnace" suggested
che of the policemen.
That's u bright idea remarked Braun,
ard just to carry out the joke he opened
the door of the hot air cylinder. The fur
mace IS built in two cylinders, one for the
lire and Gne for the hot air. Braun sent
for a lamp, and peered into the hot air
chamber. The door was so hot that 1t
burned his hand. and the rush of heated
air drove him back. AT the mouth of the
cylinder he the feet of Il man.
Come out CT there, you salamander."
yelled the policeman.
The man drew up his feet aud retreated
further back into the cylinder Braun
drew a revolver and threatened to shoot
the follow unless he came out at once. A
human being, looking like singed cat
slowly crawied out of the furnace. An odor
oi screening clothes came with him. Beads
of persDiration ran down his cheeks Tie
temperature of the hot air cylinder was
about two hundred degrees
What are you doing in there?' demand
ed the policeman.
Taking a Turkish bath. What do you
pose? growled the man in reply.
Mary Martin. the servant. stepped for
ward and shook her fist under the burg
lars rose.
An it's the third time you've come TO
ha iE n hntt
place that you'll go if you don't mend your
ways
She identified him as the same man who
iad broken into the house in 1896 He was
identilled also by Sergeant Mccormick of
the West 3Gh street police station, who
Lad arrested Him two years ago.
1t IS supposed that Keller made his way
INTO the house through the coal hole. He
had pried up the plate and had shaken out
stick of wood w,uch Held it in place.
III anybody had Chased the door of the hot
air chamber Keller would have been suffo-
Gated, for the doorscannot be opened from
the inside. Keller had left it on the latch