Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11

Mr.. Geo. w. Appleby found a black
derby hat just outside of Mr.. Carson s
back fence as he was on his way to
the stable to feed his horse. He
brought the hat to the ulayor's Office.
The hat bears the mark of the Miller
Flowers Co, Piqua, O., from whom 1t
was originally purchased.
Wore Mask At Feidt's
Mr.. Strayer Poisel says that he saw
a hatless man running north on Win
chester avenue this morning about
4:30 o'clock and he must have been
the same fellow who lost it at Mr..
Carson's, where the limb of a tree evil
IDENTIFY knocked it off.
About 100 O'Clock last night Miss
Catherine Feidt daughter of Mr.. Geo.
Feidt, South Raleigh street, was awak-
eaed by some man at her bedside. She
says his hat was pulled down over his
eyes and the lower part of his face
was covered with some sort of a mask.
She screamed and the intruder fed.
He gained entrance to the house by
climbing up the back porch and thence
through a second story window. He
had evidently been in the lower part
CT the house before he entered Miss
Feidt's room because burned matches
were scattered around everywhere.
Nothing, however, was taken or dis
trrbed. Now whether this was the
same fellow that entered the other
houses a couple hours later cannot,
Of course, be positively stated but it
is generally supposed that it was and
this exploit was but prelude to the
others.
The remarkable thing about this
story is that the man did not get a
cent anywhere he went nor did he at
tempt to use any of the customary bru-
tai or murderou methods of obtaining
it, He knows how to get into strange
house at night, however, and the moral
TO housewives is plain.
Butcher Shop Robbed.
The butcher shop of Mr.. w II. Ell
finger, 724 North Queen street, was en-
tered last night few minutes before
one o'clock and the cash register rob-
bed of 1920. The thief entered the
shop by prying open the back door.
When he opened the register, which
had bsen left unlocked by mistake,
Mr.. E,ttinger's brother heard the Chang
OF the bell from his bedroom next door
to the shop. After swiping the money
the thief beat hasty retreat out the
back way and as he was turning the
corner Mr.. Ettinger fired four shots at
him from a revolver, and he thinks
that if he didn't pepper the thief he
came pretty close to him.
There is no clue to the robbery, and
the question is whether this is the
same fellow that entered the private
houses on Winchester avenue last
night, as described above.
Jas. johnson Shot Robber.
From The World Of Monday:
The southern section Of town was
again visited by robbers early Sunday
morning, and that, too, il face of the
house breakings out there early Sat
urday morning, the natural suposition
being that the people would be on the
alert and sleep with one ear open. But.
then, robbers were ever distinguished
for their nerve.
About o'clock Sunday moraing Mr..
James Johnson, West Virginia avenue.
was awakened by two fellows boldly
trying to open front door and a win
dow at his house. Selling his trusty
gun Mr. Johnson opened an upstairs
window and fired at the robbers. He
hit one of them anyhow, fer the fell
low made an cutlery and then beat
hasty retreat, running north towards
stephen street. He dropped his hat,
a SLOUGH, and Justice of the Peace J.
ID Smith has it now. When the gun
cracked the other fellow lit cut too,
going in another direction.
There Is no clue to the robbers save
the old hat, but that might lead to
something