The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-05

to invent plausible excuses at a seconds notice.
 The girls are the sharpest at this game, and very seldom get caught. A trainer will never have anything more to do with a child that has once enter ed a reformatory. The clergyman there has generally worked on the youthful conscience. and ever after it's of repentance must be counted on to occur at inopportune moments.
 Boy burglars are trained in a very simplesimple manner. It is argued that most people living in villas pay a
 great deal of attention to the bolts and
 bars on their ground floors, but very little If any to those on the first.
 Accordingly the juvenile Bill Silkes lis provided in the early days of his training with a ten-foot rope tied in knots a foot apart. Fastened at the end is strong but light steel hook. The boy is required to practise with this rope. throwing it in much the
 hame way as a lasso would be up to a
 window sill six or more feet above him, so that the hook holds to the stone.
 When the lassoing is acquired to the trainers satisfaction. the lad is next required to shin up the rope without Idislodging the hook from the sill. This requires a great deal of practice, and many are the falls endured As the height is seldom more than ten feet, and prier to this stage the boy has been taught how to fall, only slight
 bruises result.
 The children in their first expeditions are always taken and shown the house that is to entered in the daytime, and instructed as to the best methods of entry to the back.
 Then late at night the instructor takes the little lad to the crib and from a convenient spot watches his pupil disappear according to instruc- tions. The presence of an adult with a boy of tender years late at night dis arms any suspicion an alert policeman might have If the boy were seen walk ing through a street alone
 Once at the back of the house the oy quite at his leisure. makes an inspec- ton of every window on the ground floor. If one opens readily he enters gy it. not be surveys the next tier, and in nine cases out out of ten discovers that the bathroom window is partly open. That is sufficient From a side pocket he draws the coll of silken rope and a couple of minutes later is sanding in- side the little room.
 The juvenile burglar is instructed to make his entry by bathroom where axyor r.oSS;hIa haoo.tca fhara ic olu,oye q risk In villadom of any or every room being occupied as a bedroom. and a window opening with a sleeper in the room would nearly always insure an alarm being raised.
 Not long ago remarkable thing happened at villa on Brixton Hill. When the people awakened in the morning the house was in perfect order every window was closed and fastened every door was bolted. Yet every ene's pocket had been rifed, every article of jewelry had been taken away during the night The maid and her boxes were searched, but even she was minus her months money, paid the day be- fore.
 The police were communicated with. On examination tiny finger marks were found on the bathroom window, and traces of a lock were plainly visi- ble on the window sill. A clever boy burglar had paid the villa a visit. He was never caught. for he had de- parted in the way he had come, taking with him only valuables that could be carried unobserved in his pockets.- London Daily Mail.