The age-herald., 1898-01-19
Wn8 tn6 Sun Was Yet Brlght-FOOtDadS Hold Up German
 and Rob Him in Open Daylight
George RapS' Residence Entered By Bur-
 glars Bold.
THE POLICE WERE THREE WEEKS
Getting Next, and Then Learned It From the Months of Babes The Same 0l1
 Story, No Arrests.

Burglars bold with two-horse wagon one day some weeks ago. The sun was shin ing and the. burglars sat mounted on the seat with the sangfroid of an ice wagon driver as they carted off lot of household in the city, is domicied with his family in a frame building at Eighteenth street and Tenth avenue.
 The burglars bold are still in the cold They may be brought into the city hall an- nex when the police are next. The police are yet in the cold; they have been sold, and the story is racy when told.
 It was hard rap when Raps' plunder was carted away a crisp winter day Rap, very unluckily, with his family left the city to take a vacation. Raps tapped the doors to see if they were secure, and would while he was absent, endure. Of a guardian he never once thought, for did he nut know that Birmingham was a met ropolitan city, with policemen as brave as MT. Burglar ever dared to be. But Raps was fooled for once and when he returns he will have to pay house fur nishing dealer a good round sum before he can live comfortably. His first night in his Eighteenth street residence will be very much like the home where the unso- phisticated wife displays her handiwork in improvisng furniture. For a bed he will find the floor; for pictures he will find the Ina tuaI1 oil !, ,fe f4 of the Birmingham burglar, who winks the other eye while policemen are telling their chief how it was done
 One nice day the burglars with a wagon, drove into the alley adjoining Raps' resi- dence. Possibly they rapped on the door and found no one at home. Then they made bold to enter. Bedding, bric-a-brac, everything in sight was booty for the bur glars.
 These burglars have up-to-date methods; it is no longer sack for the ''swag,'' it is wagon. And they made more than one trip, for Raps was a well-to-do gentleman, and one wagon would not accommodate his belongings. It is possible that they made several trips.
 It was only last week that some little children while at play discovered what Birmingham's guardians of the peace would have given half their lives to have been the first to see. These little toddlers remembered the blue-coat, for they had seen them in the parks while with nurse, and that dignitary had explained the power of the big thief takers In search of po- lice they went They ran and they ran on. Every man with suit of clothes resem- bling blue in the least was accosted, and still the children ran, with the strongest setting the pace The mighty army blow ing in union shook the building unto trembling, and still the children ran for the brave rescuer-the blue-coat When their sweet little tongues were lolling out they crossed the railroad tracks and, after a journey toward the South Highlands, they hove in sight of a long blue coat, big feet, a billy and helmit standing in front of a saloon.
 The Birmingham brave nestled them un- der his giant arms while the kidlets told the story of burglars bold, who in Birming- ham a wintry day carted away Rap's plunder. He bent his ear and at times the children trembled as they told how it hap pened, and the police were three weeks in hearing of it.
 The same old story-no arrests.