The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-01-20
THIRD IN A MONTH.
Intruder Dropped Bunch Of Keys
When Surprised Including
skeleton key"--Three
Other Gases,


| Last night, tor The third time Ii
the past month or so, burglar Wis
4 npon the premises of o. b. Archibald
the senior member OF the firm oil the
cairo Lumber Co, SCOT Sycamore
! street. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald 1--we
! al 52S Thiwyhfth street. Mrs. Aren't
bald assists here husband at the
Office ana both started home abc,t
o'clock When hey opened the
gate At their residence they slammed
/ y shut Immediately afterward theS
heard q noise made by some one uu.
ming down the back Steps Of the
house and along The walk in the
! rear Mr. Archibald, Wao suspected
something was wrong, rushed back
10 the rear, pistol In hand, but .ha
burglar, FIJI a burglar 1t was, hat
jumped tae back fence anil disap
pearei down the alley On examlna,
ven Of the premises Mr.. Archibald
f9nne that the burgla having taken
advantage Of the fact mat there WIS
no one in the house WIS oent upon
entering 1t. II was soon discoyere /
that he had managed 10 push out thu
key III he lock of the .attice door ON
the back porch and with his own key
had unlocked this door. But he fouaa
that the lattice door was doub'y
locked there was a bolt on the d3cr
on the inside Of the porch. In order
to reach the bolt he mad cut ont a
SPACE In the lattice large enough a.
s]ip IN his hand pulled the bolt. At
the back kitchen II was seen that he
had been trying to open ii as d mum
her OF half burnt matches were lying
near the door and on the floor near
the door was found a bunch or door
keys, among the keys being a skele-
ton key usually employed by bug
lars. He had evidently dropped the
KEYS when he heard tie front gate
slam and It being dark did not take
the time to light a match and lo9E
far them. Mr.. Archibald at once
notified police headquarters and tvo
policemen answered the summon
rand he turned over the keys to tbem
them.
The first time recently that Mr.
and Mrs Archibald had visit fr1m
burglar was ons Saturday njgat
aver month ago they were ont
IN town. leaving no one at h0ue.
When they returned they found the
mouse had been entered and ran
sacked All the burglar got was
about 81 in change. Nothing e8s
was missed
The second time was about weeE
age, when they found burglar had,
tried To force open window by pry.
ing It up. The burglar mad broken
the window lock but did not get Tito
the house as Mr. Archibald found
that nothing had been disturbed. Ii
was evident that the burglar hal
been frightened away before he haQI
the chance to enter the house.
Neither of these two former cases
had been reported.
Prowier Cot Away
William J. Boyle, the plumber Of
S24 Twenty-fourth street. says he hal
Ia visit from burglar "Wednesday
night. He heard a noise in the rear
Of the house and going there, his
wife called to him that some ore
was@ on the front porch, He went
TO the front, but the burglar got out
Of the way before he nad an oppof.
tunity to see him.
At Alderman Nellis' Home.
Alderman NelHs has a story along
this line. Some evenings ago he
went home laying a packag Of papers
and another Of merchandise on the
kitchen table and going into another
part Of the house When he returre l.
a few minutes later the packages
We're both gone and they have not
| vet been found Mrs. Nellis neyef
saw them. HIS vest containing d gold
watch was laying on the same table,
but was not disturbed.
Pocketbook Disappeared
A pocke book belonging 10 Jla
Layton OF 222 Twenty.seventb street,
and containing SIS in bills, d nuin-
Der Of receipts ana w. Q. w Dire
hook disappeared, or was lost yes
ierday evening. MIR. Layton says
that he Is sure that he did not lose
| y, but that 1t disappeared from his
dresser He would like very much to
nave the person who took 1t please
return the receipts The pocketbools
was souvenir of the Halliday Hotel
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