Charlevoix county herald., 1907-04-27
the GENTLEM An
BURGLAR
Raffles Proved to BE No Match
for Georgia.


ward man, las {. "nle do not exist, for
this reason; gentleman would not
be thief, and man possessed of the
qualities that go to make successful
craftsman couldn't be a gentleman;
but since Bellew played Rallies, every
time they land a fellow who wears a
clean collar and cleans his teeth and
nails they announce Another Society
Burglar. The last real gentleman
crack | know of was the one that
George Lindsay got some years ago
when George was playing in the
Casino she created quite sensation
with her flaming red head, enormous
kings ransom of Jewels which she
habitually wore, plastered all over her
so that she looked like a jewelers.
showcase. Everybody knew her and
knew her sparks, and it was sure
bet that sooner or later she would be
robbed
"She lived in little bijou house in
Bensonhurst. One summer night she
woke up and heard some on scuff1ing
around the room. She spoke and the
intruder came up to her bed, and,
turning his lantern (the thiefs cleo
trio light wasn't invented them on
her, told her to shut up or he'd blow
her roof off. Georgie-Porgie was as
cool as the Ice Trust. 4 won't move,
says she. Go ahead and get what
you want The fellow looked at her
pretty sharply, made threatening
gesture with his gun, and went to
work looking for the sparks, while
George lay in bed, the covers drawn
up to her nose, and watched him with
big eyes, like a naughty child who
has just been punished and put to
bed.
He couldn't find them, and he
came back to her bedside. Here,
diamonds, and don't you make any
noise, Or
so George stepped out OF bed iii
her pajamas and crossed the room
barefoot, and dug up the sparks from
under lot OF skirts and frippery, and
handed them over. Now, good
craftsman, having the stuff, would
have beat it; but Georgie-Porgie had
sized him for an amateur, and so May
/ light a cigarette, Mr.. Burglar? says
she, with an adorable lisp. Thank
you. Have one yoTself?' And the
dub took one, and she began 20 talk
to him. You know George could be
brother to a prince or fellow to a
beggar, and they had quite a CONVEX
sation. She asked him why he was
in that business, if he wasn't afraid,
and all about it, and he got quite in
terested in her and began to tell her
the story of his life and try to justify
his mode of life to her, and George
Porgie sat on one foot and listened
and they got quite chummy
Let me mix you cocktail. says
she, and she led the v ly into her din
ing-room and mixed one for him and
one for herself He had enough sense
10 keep an eye on her and not let her
from in front of him, and she, with
her baby face ard lisp. kept her eyes
open to catch him offsde. At last
some lingering remains Of sense whis-
pered to him il was time to go.
You must go?' said she. i really
can't say l am pleased to have met
you, but it has been most interest
ing experience
Good evening says the gentleman
burglar, la Rallies, 4 am sorry that
/ should appear in such light, and
can say | am charmed to have met
you
He was at the door then. and for
one minute he turned his back TO her.
so nice of you to say so, lisped
Gcorgie-Porgie, and quick as a fash
she snatched a Moorish dagger from
panoply on the wall, and drove ii
hard between his shoulders. Stimuli
taneously she gave him a violent jolt
in the back with her knee which drove
him through the door and slammed
the door and locked it, He gave a
horrid hiccough and she heard him
thrashinS round like a hen with its
head off, then bump-bump-bump, he
fell down the stairs and George threw
open the window and yelled, Fire!
Murder and so on.
In a few minutes she heard the
clumpity-clump of a cops boots as he
came running. The unfortunate Raj
fles was lying at the foot of the stairs.
Georges servants were afraid TO go
down, SO George went herself and let
the policeman in. Poor Rallies lay
grooming with the knife sticking in his
back, and in a broken voice begged
them to pull it out. I'm dying, he
groaned
Not bit of It, said George cheer
fully, as she extracted the knife and
cid some first aid work with wet tow
els. You'll live to do ten years
And he did. The doctors pul,n,
him round and he got ten for that 5uN
He didn't mind the stretch so mucl..
as the waV she fooled him