The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-12
THIEF AMgSES BABY
Midnight PrOwIer Makes
Faces and AmueeS
Tot

Chicago, H. June 12.-The baby
loving burglar is abroad again this
aine on the north side The burglar
forEot $4,000 worth Of jewelry. but at
fbnt il was an expensive pantomime.
The scene was laid in the bedroom
OF FRED Lewis. $50 LaSalle avenue,
and father and mother slept, tiny
Esther, in mamma's arms, lay awake
ana watched. Andthis, Mr. Lewis tells
the police, is what he believes the
baby saw and did:
Enter through the shadows cast by
the aicluering night lamp MI Burglar
Baby Lewis eyes the burglar and the
burglar takes respectful cognizance Of
Baby Lewis, as II nose. eyes and
mnuth were atoIt to merge. She
.catrhes her breath. but just before
'ghe cry she opens her eyes in wonder,
for the burglar has gone through the
same performance Evidently he will
ee more amusing than the pickering
shadows Of the night lamD. she thinks.
and she watches ia silence.
The bureiar winls prodiglously with
his right eye. waves his left hand gaily
and moves noiselessly toward the
dresser. bows low. winks both eyes
hard. eleyating the eyebrows and
stretching his mouth wide. and
eurns his back on baby. But even the
Dacx of his head Is eloquent panto-
mifnir msrth and he wriggles his ears,
smyves his cap np and down with his
aexlble scalp until baby giggles softly
Hiih delight
when the burglar turns again he
We,rs still more wonderful facial
uontortion, ana he has in his hands all
fhs pretty sparkling things that nam
ma shows to little Esther only once
In while. Beneath the diamond tiara,
this grins and squlnts are doubly en-
Mrnred and the glitter ct the pretty
rings elicit another laugh. which Mrs.
Lewis still misunderstands. Then
wearyiug OF his double role of clown
and pilferer the burglar. with a fare
1sen grotesque expression vanishes
min The darkness of the hallway.
This is rs much as Mr. Lewis imag-
nation has to account for, he says.
Khe baby cried with disappointment
al she absence Of her strange enter
tanner and the loss was discovered.
MIS-. Lewis remembered that baby had
iarghcd and Mr.. Lewis. VINO is a dry
goods commission merchant holds
thai ne has the right solution of the
mystery Now he wants to meet the
onrglar who was 50 much more court
cons to his little girl than was the
nnn who snafched pocketbook out
* The hand Of Mrs, Frank Crozier's
sahy ON the South Side few weeks
zgu This man. who held up the
huby carriage in front OF the Crozier
residence, 524S Kimbark avenue.
saAae Baby crozier cry while the
Es~ih Side gentleman" made Baby
--fN3E laugh.
ciOw. for the privilege of meeting
afe burglar and Of gaining possession
~ lhe $3.50 in cash and the S2,50O
utEfh n iewelry taken. Mr. Lewis
;nsrees. according TO an advertisement
znssrted in daily paper today, to ask
nn questions and to pay reward Of
S5la Meanwhile the police are work
iaE hard on the case They have dis
covered that the man gained entrance
through the pantry window and have
a measurement OF his hand, taken from
an imprint ON tho sill. Three thous-
ann Dollars worth Of iewelry hidden
away in side drawer Of the bureau
esfz.les the notice Of the burglar in
his hurry