The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-07-06
BURGLAR STOLE
ALL OF HIS CLOTHES
Woodland Heights Citizen Finds
His Clothes Gone and Barefoot
Tracks All Over the House.
Tot Wasn't Talking in
Sleep.
RIG I'm Nd, VA.-Special.-

Little Doris Toon. the three-year-
old daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. .. ,.
,Toon. who live at Woodland Heights.
nesr Forest Hill. woke her father last
night shortly after IL O'Clock by sit
ting up In her crib and crying out;
Go away Leave me alOnet'
Mr.. Toon Immediately sprang from
his bed and rushed across 10 the
crib. He asked his little daughter
what was the matter. Again the child,
now half asleep, cried out; Go away!
Let me alone"
Relieving that Doris had had a bad
dream. Mr.. TOon returned to his bed,
soon went back TO sleep, and thought
nothing OF the occurrence until he got
up this morning TO dress and found
that he had no clothes to wear. Two
suits OF clothes were in the room
when he retired last night. one had
been hung over a chair; the other
was hung over the foot of the little
girls cradle.
Mr.. Toon aroused his wife and to-
gether they searched the room The
clothes were certainly not there. Mr..
TOOn opened the blinds. and as the
morning light flooded the room both
he and his wife were Mortified TO see
a number of muddy, barefoot tracks
| leading from the door into the room,
| around the room, then out through
| the door again.
Went Through Every Room.
Following the tracks. which Mr..
ToOn declares must have been those
Of a man hardly less than six feet
tall, Mr.. and Mrs. ToOn, now thor
/ oughly alarmed, found that the night
I intruder had entered nearly every
room I'm the house in search of loot.
Not satisfied with two suits Of
/ ClotheS-One brand 'new-and some
/ twelve or fifteen dollars in the pockets
/ OF one Of the pairs Of trousers. the
/ burglar had paid visit to the pam
| try and taken a newly cooked ham
/ weighing about nine pounds-end a
/ peck OF tomatoes.
| Further investigation showed that
/ the front window of the parlOr was
/ wide open. and right through the win
| dow came the line of footprints. out
/ in the yard the tracks showed that the
man had approached from the rear
and completely circled the house. look
| ing evidently for a favorable entrance
! The window, which the intruder had
raised, had not been locked. and was
raised with but lite d'tic~lty.
The ChG. t.g.-H.
Remem bering thCI me sudden and
alarming cries of ms little girl some
/ hours before, Mr.. Toon went back up
stairs and asked Doris who had dis
turbed her.
Big. black man." lisped the child
The police. who have. of course
heen notified. though Mr.. TOon live:
in the cOunty-in Chesterfield count,
ARE doing what they can to aSSiS
the Chesterfield officials. Sometim,
ago q stocking-foot burglar paid hi.
respects 70 practically every suburb
around Richmond and carried off ;
iuantity Of jewelry. lie took NJ
Clothes. however, and mover, as IA
as is known, robbed the pantries.
Afraid To Take the JcwclrN.
| This negrO-thc one who visited Mr.
Toon's home last night-scemed TO b'
T | satisfied with clothes, food and money
for ne passed over two gold watche
and a handsome diamond brooch, lief
on the bureau. The watches ans
brooch were in plain view and mus
have been seen by the burglar.
} ! The fact that the man visited thu
! pantry leads the police TO believe ina
! famous barefoot burglar who SOM
e time ago robbed dozens Of houses II
Newport News and vicinity and finally
| reformed or left that locality withcu
barefoot one seen in Newport News
- and that time, but for his quickncs
g OF mind and body, he would undoubted
! ly have been killed.
J lie was on the second floor Of a hom
: in the most fashionable residential dis
trict when the owner of the house re
: the burglar, who kept tabb OF hi
, clients. had expected.
Newport News Incident.
Barefoot rushed down the from
E steps but only to meet Mr.. Citizel
coming up. The two men clinched OF
r the narrow stairway. Mr.. Citizen drey
pit oi "BarcfoOt's' stomach and pulle
tile trigger. The gun snapped. Wit
O. snort o. scorn the burglar, who b
} The - int hall light was seen TO be "a
b. adversary stunning blow i'm the face
: -urued complete handspring over hi
, BODY and tumbled down tine steps
threw open the front door. rushed on
D. and escaped.