The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-12-06
THE HEADY BURGLAR
METHODS HE USES TO PUT THE PO.
LICE ON THE WRONG SCENT.

Two Cases Where Goodness nnd Pres
ence OF Mind Were More Elective
Than FleetnesE OF Foot In Evadins
the officers OF the Law.
'DThe crooks OF Chicago don't believe
In the running game in attempting to
escape when caught ut work." said a
Chicago detective who was III Wash
ington last week, 'and I'm rather in
clined to believe that they've got the
sensible end of 1t. A man who starts
to run away from one or more police
men, no matter whether he is swifter
Of foot than q deer, is EOund to be col
Jared nine times out of ten. whether lie
makes his dash at midday or In the
middle Of the night. He has to take
the big chance Of being headed off by
other cops, and he has to take chances
on the blind alleys that he's liable to
run into. The crook. caught red hand
ed, who keeps longest out OF the
clutches Of the police, is the man who
uses his head and who doesn't run. To
illustrate:
"a few months ago a we'll known
Chicago housebreakeS who has put in
numerous hefty stretches ut Joliet. de-
cided to crack crib on Prairie ave
nue., one Of the swaggcr houses of the
town. He found that the whole fam
fly occupying the house were going to
the thcater on a certain night. and lie
figured on all of the servants remain.
ing below stairs after the family's de-
parture. He made second story lob
Of 1t. climbing UP porch. and lie got
in without n bit Of trouble. 1t was
really something easy, and the follow
simply got pockets full Of jcwelry
The thing was passing Off beautifully
when q maidservant walked in on
him while he was ransacking the dress
ers IN one Of the ladies' bOudoirs. She
let out scream and went a-kitIng
down the steps to where the menserv-
ants were. The crook sloped for the
front door on the second floor and slip
ped down the same porch stanchon
that he had used in climbing up. He
was pretty quick, and he was a couple
of doors away, on the sidewalk, before
q lot of servants burst out Of the house
and began to yell for the police.
Now. If that crook had started to run
there Is no manner Of doubt that he
would have been headed off. and he
would have stood more than an even
chance Of being shot into the bargain
II not by cop, then by some citizen
or other. for since the reign Of footpad
terror In Chicago few years ago q
majority Of the citizens who stay out
late O. nights pack guns around with
them. Well, this thief didn't do any
running stunt at all. There was an
undertaker's wagon standing in front
of house about FIVE doors away from
the one he had robbed. No one was in
the wagon. The crook saw his chance.
He stepped aboard the wagon in q
leisurely manner, gave cluck to the
horse and started to drive off at lazy
irot just as n couple OF officers charged
around the corner. He pulled the
wagon up to talk to the cops.
81 guess somebody's been killed
down In that house. the way they're
yel'in.' he said to the cops.
Have you seen any one running by
hereT the policeman asked him.
Well. just as hoped aboard the
wagon there was duck chased out Of
that house and screwed down the other
way replied the thief, and the police
men took up their iope IND started: for
the robbed house. The thief drove
down Prairie avenue with all the lei
sure in life. Re abandoned the wagon
after going a mile, and took a down
town car. I nailed him q couple Of
months later when he was drunk, on
suspicion Of having hand in a certain
job, and he was boastful enough to
own up to 1t and to tell me how he'd
got away on the occasion I've told you
about.
"Still more recently there was an
other we'll known Chicago second story
house on one Of the prominent bouIe-
wards. The butler came in on him,
and he punched the butler q swift one
and bnckheeled him. Then he walked
swiftly out Of the house and down the
steps, a number Of the other servants
meantime appearing az ti,S basement
door and bowling. Down in the next
block big gang Of all night men were
engaged in putting in new sewer pipes.
The crook didn't take up any sprint,
but he just made for the scene of the
sewer pipe operations ut good walk
ing clip. He was got up pretty roughly,
and he jumped into the first ditch he
came to. after having caught up pick
that was lying on the brink, and start
ed in to work. @fN
"There was Swede In the pit there
with him, but the Swede Ind the prop
er Scandinavian stolidity, and he didn't
pay any attention to his new digging
companion. The crook piled his pick
there for an hour, while cops plowed
around. all over the street looking for
the robber. When the excitement had
all died down, he dropped his pick and
stole silently away. There was rum in
this ones head. too, when one Of my
sleuth pals got him, and he told chestily
Of the neat way he had given the cops
the slip. So many of the Chicago
crooks are adopting similar tactics
nowadays that 1t Is rare for a Chicago
policeman to get run for his money,
in the half literal sense" Washington
Star.
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The emblem Of the county Of Sussex,