The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-23
Miss NfaltCle Reese, HOlton Girl Killed
by Burglar in Chicago.

In the afternoon Maude Reese.
who never had spent q night alone
in the fat, telephoned her friend, Mrs.
Baufngartner. who was stopping with
friends at 81 Ballou street. asking
her if she could not spend the night
with her Mrs. Baumgartner lives at
4 Harlem avenue, Freeport, and is
about Miss Reese's age. On account
see distinctly objects that are more
than a few inches from her eyes. and
has to be led about like a child.
Mrs. Baumgartner agreed to spend
the night with her friend and was
taken to the Office of the Union Trac-
ton company. At ) o'clock in the
evening she and Miss Reese started
for home.
Miss Reese purchased a few gro
| ceries near her home and then let
herself in with her latchkey
There is some one in the house, -
she whispered to Mrs Baun1gartner
as soon as she entered. "Can't you
hear some one moving?"
Both young women listened in
tently. The noise of feet could be
| heard plainly in the kitchen, which is
| in the rear of the fat.
"Don't STIR Miss Reese said. st
am going to see what that is"
Catches Thief at Work.
| Mrs. Baumgartner heard the quick
/ decisive walk of her friend on the
oaken floor as she passed through the
i hail on her way to the kitchen. The
| fiat is lighted with gas and at the time
was in darkness. Then Mrs. Baum
artner heard Miss Reese scream,
| followed by the low menacing voice
| of a man. Standing in the corner near
| the opened front door, her ears
/ strained and her sightless eyes Vainly
attempting to pierce the gloom, she
| heard another scream in which the
/ cry of Help was mingled, the sound
as of chairs being overturned, follow
! ed by the crash of dishes She herself
screamed, but no one came.
The next instant the sightless wo-
| man heard the man running through
/ the hall toward her Miss Reese was
either chasing him or being dragged
! bv him, for she could hear her re-
/ peated screams. though she could see
nothing They now were in the hall
/ Just outside the vestibuIe, and the next
! instant were so close to her that she
| could have touched them. She heard
the painting, half sobbing cries of Miss
| Reese, and then the mans voice;
| LET go of me or I'll shoot your
| Hears the Fatal Shot.
Mrs Baumgartner says she saw
what she thought was the burglar S
back and his hand reaching for his
coat pocket The next instant there
! was a report the sound of a fall, and
a gasping cry. She heard the man
| running back through the hall after
/ uttering a curse and the exclamation:
/ seyo4, woI,ld have it," Then followed
| the sound of crashing glass.
/ All this took but few seconds. The
! people in the fiat above and the fiat on
/ the other side of the entrance came
4 running to their doors The gas was
/ lighted. Miss Reese's form was lying
/ doubled up in the right hand corner
Of the entrance, so that the door could
not be moved without disturbing it.
Some one ran to nearest drug store. a
block away. at Barry evenue, and call
ed Ip the Sheffield police station. Fiji
teen minutes afterward the police be-
4 gan to arrive
THAT young woman was q plucky one,
said Detective Balier, as he contefnplat-
| ed the body with the small wound IN the
breast that put an end to her determined
i fight with the burglar
Three months ago Smith and Were
1 here to investigate another burglary some
/ thief had opened the window of this bed
! room reached through and grabbed q
1 pocketbook that was within reach on the
| dresser. I came around the next morn
ing to investigate.
] living here all alone with her sister,
No am not she said. ] never
1 have been afraid of anything. Kansas
girls have some nerve.
i q IF you ever see q burglar in the house
YOU had better not try to do anything
told her Just keep still and let hin
4 take all he wants. burglar is apt e
get to shooting and kill somebody.
she laughed ard said: If burglar
ever gets in here my sister and VII