The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
!. SHE HAD NERVE.
Plucky hrs. 4. D. Carter Pre-
vents a Robbery.
g Get That Money Said RObber
With q Gun.
GRABBED A REVOLVER
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Nan Backed OFF Looking Down
the Muzzle.
Would Have Shot Had He Moved
His Hand.
Grabbed A REVOLVER

-ACN tAtdL 4nOtAC1 dA1- SCI ~ 49,
were the words that greeted the ears
of Mrs. A. D. Carter of 1912 Monroe
street about 10 o'clock this morning
when she turned as she heard some
one step on the walk leading TO the
back door. Get that money and get
it quick repeated the voice. '+rhis is
no play and I mean what say"
What money!" queried Mrs. Car
ter
THAT money that was taken in at
the stands yesterday answered the
man, as he drew a revolver from his
pocket.
Then for the first time" said Mrs.
Carter, II realized that I was being
held up and I turned and reached
over on the top of fifty pound lard
can and grabbed a revolver that my
husband had laid there beside the
money when he started TO go UP town
to get some meat for our breakfast.
Instinctively threw the gun down on
him and he began to back away and
up the few steps which lead to the
basement of the house.
''I could have killed him without any
trouble I guess said Mrs. Carter.
'sbut that would have been awful, but
certainly would have pulled the trig-
ger if he had attempted to raise the
hand which hung by his side and the
revolver in it. AS soon as he got to
the corner of the huse, and I was
afraid to step outside to see what di-
rection that he took. because mere
might have been another man with
him who would have grabbed the grip
which contained the money and made
away with it.
Mr.. Carter has number of the
concessions at VineWood park and yes
terday vas a big day and he brought
the money home in a grip as has been
the custom since he has been at the
park. have no idea how much
money there was in it. but there must
have been several hundred dollars.
when Mr. Carter left to go to the
meat market he brought the money
down to the kitchen and took the re-
volver out of his pocket and told me
not TO leave the room for minute
The man must have watched him leave
and then come in at the front door,
which was open. and once tnougnI
that [ heard some one upstairs, Dut L
listened and did not hear the noise
again and I came to the conclusion
that I was mistaken and thought noth-
ing about the matter futher until L
saw the man standing at the screen IN
front of the kitchen door
s'He partially. opened the door and
after saving good morning two or three
times started to come in when 1 stop
ped him by pointing the revolver at
him when he made his demand for
money He was man slightly under
medium height and had his hat pulled
down over his eyes so closely that
could not see his face and [ should
saw that he was rather stout, though /
| think that he had on two suits OF
clothes from the way that they seemed
to ft him. and intended to pull one OF
them off as soon as he got away Win
the money I have an idea that ne IS
some one who knows Mr.. Carter and
! his habit of bringing money home with
him each night and picked out last
/ night as the one for a hold up on ac-
/ count of the big day at NlneWOo0-
"Sonae of the neighbOrs noticed a
| suspicious character hanging around
4 late last night and saw the same man
1 this morning again and from ther
/ description I am sure that the person
seen last night and again TINS morning
/ is the man who tried to rob me.
ssMr. Carter was kept at the park
until after O o'clock last night and IN
/ stead Of coming home on V1newood
1 car as has been his custom. drove
! home in a wagon with one of the boys
ana came uD the walk from the south
in the place Of from the north as he
usually does. This is probably the
/ only thing that saved him from being
I held up and probably murdered, as he
+ had his revolver with him and would
/ in all likelihood resisted and either
killed the holdup or been killed him
/ self.
.'Mr. Carter took the money to the
/ bank this morning as soon as he came
/ back and I had told him Of what had
/ banDened. and I am sure that there
will be no more money kept about the
house in the future or carried home
late at night.
"As soon as we had eaten our break
/ fast I went upstairs to attend to my
work up there. and then discovered
for the first time that the rooms on the
/ second floor had been ransacked and
everything thrown about in the great
/ est confusion Even the bed had been
searched and the slips taken from the
pillows and the mattress turned over.
Every drawer in the dresser had
i been taken out and the contents
poured out on the floor and then kick
ed about and a most thorough search
made. Mr.. Carter has always left the
4 money upstairs and the only way that
4 I can account for the unusual precau-
ton this morning was because there
was considerably more than usual in
1 the grip. This precaution is all that
f saved the money for the man had
searched the upstairs rooms thorough
1 ly and could not have missed finding it
/ if it had been in either of them.
Mrs. Carter is a rather small woman,
medium height, with hair that in this
instance Will be referred to as auburn
/ though it is often referred to as red.
/ The GOODNESS with which she narrated
I ner story this morning indicates to one
j who listened to it that the would be
+ burglar showed excellent judgment
when he retired when confronted with
a revolver in her hands.
The home of the Carriers is within a
block of the railroad tracks and after
the man made his escape he was seen
running towards the old Missouri Pa
cifc freight depot. which IS several
/ blocks south. He ran in behind the
depot and ppeared. though from
/ the description given by Mrs. Carter
the police have hopes of arresting him
before night. as he is believed to be a
] local character well known to them
! and is something of a pug pugilist.