Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-08-17
rom Thursdays Daily


city and they become emboldened
with each succeeding depreciation
committed.
Last night about 3 o'clock the
home of Mr.. Corbett on the corner
of Elizabeth and Wells street was
entered by a masked robber
through a rear window. According
to accounts given us this morning
Of the affair he acted very cool and
unconcerned. The very fact that
he would attempt to commit rob-
berry right in the center of the town
and almost directly under an
electric light gives the reader
some ida of the thief's identity.
After climbing through the window
into the kitchen, he lighted lamp
and proceeded upstairs. He entered
the sleeping apartments oftwo girls
who are staying with Mr.. Cortitt,
telling them to lie still that he was
desperate. He then hastily ran
sacked their trunks secured a ring
AMI few other articles of value and
hastily made his exit. The girls in
the meantime were frightened al.
most into insensibility, but after he
had taken his departure, they sue
ceeded in raising a window and be-
gan screaming. After they were
started it was almost impossible to
silence them. Parties from the
Arlington hotel heard their cries
and rushed to the scene, but the
thief h I'd made good his escape. In
getting out of the window portion
of the clothing taken was left. 1t
had evidently been left by the rob-
Der in his flight.
MISS GILMoRE's STATEMENT.
Miss Carrie Gilmore, niece Of
Mr.. Corbitt, who has been making
her home with him for some time,
d scovered the burglar. She was
sleeping on a cot by the side of a
bed in which her sister and young
lady friend, of Pittsburg. who are
her guests, were sleeping. Miss
Gilmore says when she awakened
the burglar was standing near the
head of her cot. She. said to him:
"You get out of here" He replied:
IF you make noise I'll blow your
brains out" Miss Gilmore then
started to get up and partly raised
herself on the bed, all the time tell
ing the burglar to get out of there,
but the burglar as she attempted to
get up said: Didn't l tell you to
keep still or l would blow your
brains out?" Miss Gilmore then
reached over and took hold of one
foot of her sister, to try and arouse
her, but the burglar noticed this
move and again cautioned her to
cease her efforts to raise an alarm
or he would blow her brains out"
The burglar then said to Miss Gil
more: you are from Pittsburg,
aren't you:?" Miss Gilmore replied
in the affirmative and then he left
the room. Miss Gilmore went to the
window and yelled burglars to the
top of her voice, and soon people
focked to the house, but the villain
had made good his escape. Miss
Gilmore showed a good deal of
bravery and tact.
She says she could not describe
the burglar any more than to say
he was short and heavy set man
with a black beard, and wore a
black SLOUGH hat.
An examination Of the house al
ter the burglar had gone revealed
the fact that he had gained an en-
trance by reaching through the
slat of a shutter in the rear of the
house, the slat having been broken
for some time. He raised the win
dow after christening the Shutters.
and gained an entrance. He made
his exit by opening the back kitch-
en- door. He had evidently been in
the house a good. long time, as be