The sun., 1906-12-08
SHE FLATTENED A BURGLAR.
W., y GHTON. .33I POI NDS,
i,HIEI ~ Az AMBITION.
,;.hc, ~ arrest Falls on an Intruder and
a. Nntr Or Terror Inspiring Mouse
l,,,d. Inn DDMn-iIr Il showed Edge
..,, H'tWrrn TNO BARS or Iiis Cell.

q, N,.to OF a Terror Inspiring Mouse
Il,d. Inn DONn-Hr u showed Edge
Vas, H'tWrrn TNO BARS or His Cell.
.. ... .Dru the dream of Mary Naughton
,...-...,a her Youngest girlhood that some
,.,..- .-.. would te policeman. Time and
...... sd. has said that a woman has right
...r. .rb On the force provided she had
,..Ia,-.llc. and hoping against hope that
..rD...ly woman would come into her own,
Mary ri- trained assiduously til she now
vo.n-a3l pounds with her bonnet and other
Ir...n
NNru Miss Mary Naughton fell out OF bed
c.Iu Yesterday morning and landed on a
furyHr she weighed only 329 pounds, be-
,...-. -Ur didn't take time to put on her bon
uef aud things Lefore getting down TO the
work o. hand. The burglar who is only the
ne p' an average man, had gone into
Mar. - room a. 5Jl Seventh street. Brooklyn,
..., l.,., Of the Seney Hospital, and had
,o5I.-rIv awakened Mary. Mary had been
sleeping -oundly in her room on the ground
1aa, Of the house after a hard day 3 work in
the hospital, where Mary is the big breeze
Of ftho culinary department.
Mary had fallen asleep to dream Of the
dsy when she could add brass buttons and a
nickel star 70 the blue suit she always wears,
vnrr she says, she WAS awakened about
or.9r, m he morning by what she thought
a. -r.r Nare the movements Of a mouse along
,Ae floor Frozen with terror, Mary lay
-tIu for almost a minute, too frightened at
rhe thought of a mouse running about un-
ruzlled - call for help. Gradually she got
I'D nerve 70 open her eyes and turn her
read a bit. and when she saw the vague
f7lrc of a man kneelng beside an open
drawer Of a bureau at the head of the bed
she almost cried out with Joy and relief.
Mary. who measures about six feet any
way you want to go. spent few seconds
figuring on a plan Of campaign. To simply
roll part way over and 80 fall on the burglar
seemed to be about as good a way to start
things a. any other
one for the money" whispered Mary
softly to herself, and then as the great mo-
rout approa ched she ran hurriedly through
the rest OF the verse: Two for the show,
three 10 get ready, and" Mary stopped
counting with a hearty laugh. She says she
really couldn't help it as she pictured what
was gong To happen.
And four TO go-o-o-o-o!' shouted Mary.
and rolled.
"Oof' began the burglar with intensity,
and then, as Mary settled slowly all over
tim his words grew incistinct.
L thought for a minute said Mary
Yesterday as she stirred vet Of vegetable
roup in the hospital kitchen, that ne
get out from under me and crawl out the
window. II ne did that I'd been tnat
nore! How could | ever crawl on t tn
window after him if he got away? An
didn't want to fall down on the FIRST good
collar I'd ever made,
Mary sat on the burglar a long time think
ing CHANGING about the room she saw
that every drawer was pulled out and that
her finest blue clothes and lingerie were
scattered all over the carpet. only her
trunk was undistuTbcd and she sighed with
loud relief as she discovered that on top OF
me trunk her pocket book, containing Sl04,
vas still untouched She placed her feet
firmly on the burglars chest and stood
Up SO that she could reach the pocket book
When she bad placed it carefully under her
pillow she realized that it was now time 10
use harsh measures with the intruder.
A. nearly as Mary remembers, the first
thing she struck with the burglar when
she had picked him up was Morris char
near the foot of the bed. 1hen she slammed
him some against the walls Of the room,
each wall in turn. After she had worked
her way around the room in this way she
thought of a finer, crueler punishment
she would spread the bills in her Eocket
book out on the lid of the trunk and bang
the burglars head against the real money
he had overlooked.
Mary had spread over $50 of her bills
on the trunk lid, holding the burglar at
arms length the while, when suddenly the
little lifting tune she had been humming
died a-borning. There was no mistaklng
" this time There almost at Mary's
very bare feet was fierce mouse. With
an agonized scream Mary rolled TO the
door. still hanging on to her burglar ana
and one-half revolutions. The burglar,
Who later gave his name to the real police
rs Charles Neason. begged for mercy until
he could yell no more.
The nineteen women employees Of the
hospital who sleep in the Seventh street
house were now abroad in their nighties
and came tImbling down the stairs from
upper floors yelling like football game.
Inside her room Mary was having trouble
holding the mouse at bay, standing on the
burglar and trying to open a spring lock
on the inside of her door all at the same
time When she finally got the door en-
and the white robed, un-Marcelled rescue
party ,treamed into the room and saw the
etges Of a man sticking out from Mary
they Asi N terror. all but Matilda Burns,
the fi~st assistant faXseed poultice cook.
Matilda advanced and learned that al
though Mary wanted to make the arrest
herself she had decided, in view Of the
tmclothed position in which she had hur-
be a. well TO go over TO the hospital and have
Wight N4tchman John Leddy call up the
police When news got around that the
police were coming everybody went up
stars 70 prink up a BIZ, all except Mary.
Mary stayed on the job and the burglar, and
now that the door separated her from the
mouse she sat on the burglar and tried to
calm herself after her recent scare.
Down NJ the Fifth avenue police station
Sergr Dick Hamsbury decided TO send
"h3r Is said 70 be The finest looking COP in
Caprvi'y to get the burglar from under
Mary. Harry Dick ia rhe patrolman's
name and he is almost as well developed
81 Mary and has eyes like Anna Held, a
complexion like Marie Cahill and the
tprghtly grace Of Corse Payton.
Help cried the burglar earnestly as
Patraman Dick entered the house on the
nun and came no attention with a blush
before Mary. The burglars voice sounded
- ar an were yelling in barrel far away
Thank Heavenl' sobbed the burglar,
as Mary released him and came TO attention
before her superior officer. Neason, the
burglar, dragged himself 10 the policeman's
SIDE Don't let her touch me, for Gods
sake. Ilbbered the burglar. Il amt no
burglar. homes. l goes into the house to
max . all officer, that's all l got into the
wrong room bY mistake and while | was