Connecticut western news., 1912-12-12
VOL. XIII
BURGLAR GOT AWAY.
Dropped From Transom and Outran
 Constable Toussaint's Bullet.

Constable ouSSaint's Bullet.
 The trolley car was just starting on it's last round trip, at 11:33, Thursday night, when a loud crash, smash and rattle of broken glass startled the opera tors in the telephone office. The sound came, manifestly, from the Cummings block, across the street, occupied by the savings bank, post office and Collins jewelry store. Miss Nora Flynn, the night operator, ,keenly alert to the necess- ity of prompt action, instantly rang up the house of Deputy Sheriff Rhoades and informed him that 8 burglary was being committed. Lawyer Clint Rora- back also was called.
 Tom Sweeney and ex- Constable Albert Tousaint, who, with a son of Glenn. Kegler, were on their way home from futile coon hunt, happened along just then and were appraised of the despefate situation, and were first on the spot. They ran to the block, peered in at all windows until they came to Collins store, where they distinctly saw a nov ing form, and knew that they had spotted the burglar. At this juncture, Sheriff Rhoades come hurrying up, and the party, finding everything intact in the front of the store, went around to the back to investigate. They found the cellar window sash broken and evil dences to show that the intruder had crawled through the orifice, into the cellar. At the same time they could see, through the rear window, the figure of the burglar, evidently moving stealthily toward the front door.
 Figuring it out by reasonable process of logic. that he would have to come out the same way he went in, Sheriff Rhoades stationed himself by the broken cellar window to nab the thief as he at tempted to escape, and sent Toussaint around to the front to make sure he would not, by any chance, unlock the front door ard get away. Toussaint, at the front, saw the interloper inside, and and by the light of & flash light, aided by the light of the electric street lamps, thought he recognized him as 8 young colored scamp from Ashley Falls, who had Leen seen prowling around the neighborhood few evenings before, and who had recently got ont of jail where he had served time for stealing, by way of variation of his fayorite game of posing as minister soliciting funds for building negro churches and estab- fishing unday schools.
 Toussaint. who had revolver, was congratulating himself on the prospect of capturing the slippery crook, whose escape seemed impossible with the only means of egress guarded by the deputy sheriff at the rear of the store, and him self with his gun blocking any possibil- ity of escape through the front door.
 Suddenly there was swishing sound, and "plunk!" something dropped out of the sky with dull thud, directly in front of the jewelry stores front door, and before the watchful Toussaint could make out what it was, it strengthened up on two hind legs and started on a run for the corner of Railroad street Toussa int, hau4ed out his gun and fired at the fleeing figure, but the fleeing fig. ure was travelling faster than any bullet could go, and was around the corner and out of sight over the Massachusetts line in a jiffy.
 By this time Rhoades, Roraback and the spot, had hastened to the front, and brief investigation resulted in a dis covery which would have been valuable if made earlier. The large plate glass transom light over the front door had been smashed in with a brick and the "coon" had not only come in that way
 but had gone out that way. He haC first gone through the rear cellar win
 dow, as suspected, but found himself unable to get up into the store through the trap-door. thanks to the effective manner in which MT. Collin locks anC braces it at night. Baked in that effor
 he had hurled brick through the tran
 som, timing his "throw" at the instan
 the trolley car started, which made { noise that would somewhat drown tht sound of the breaking glass.
 The boldness of the attempt is aston
 ishing when it is remembered that { lodge meeting was in session in Masonic Hall, next door the Odd Fellows lodg> was in session 8 hundred feet away
 Marshalls pool room was running, witl number of husky, athletic chaps therein directly across the street, and the tele phone office adjoining was open and lighted up. It would seem a foolhardy experiment. for even professional burg lar to attempt with any hope of getting away yet had it not been for the cool alertness of the telephone girl, there ls no reason why the burglar could not have made rich haul and gotten away with it instead of simply escaping with @ whole hide.
 MT Collin Uas summoned tO the snOt