The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-06-27
SEES A BURGLAR
IN HER Mirror AS
1 SHE IS D|SR0B|NG
The Whole Town Chased
Him, but Most of 1t Fell
Into the Ravine.
BANG! SPLASH! GURGLE!
Varied Bruises On Prominent
Citizens Only Result of
Pursuit and Fusillade.
BANG! SPLASH! GURGLE!


CALDWELL. ". j.. June "a. - This
town 10 full Of bruised and battered
prominent citizens to-day as a result
Of . terrific burglar hunt last night in
the nelghborhood of the home Of Mrs.
Peter +. Beider on Campbell avenue.
The burglar. wearing mask. APP
peared suddenly In Mrs Beldcr's look
haAr. Mrs. Belder screamed and her
soo. Albert. ran out OF his room In
time TO see the invader jump through a
window that opened on the tawn In the
rear
Mrs.. Beider kept on screaming and
young Belder poked n shotgun out If
The window and woke the echoes for
several leagues. Prominent citizens
Stocked out Of their homes. the majority
a them armed to the teeth. The night
patrol OF the Caldwell police force, In
the person OF uniformed Paul Van
Dyke, came running from some deep
Gown dell a mile or so away. Before
the uniform and departmental ordnance
arrived. young DR.. J. Rowland Teed.
son OF William T. iced, the famous
Newark detective. had organized the
chase. Followed by three undertaken.
two sections. eight doctors and a rear
guard OF lawyers. veterinarians and
sundry other professional men, he lad
we way to 4 precipitous ravine back of
the Belder home.
ouMPTY.eUMPi sANol eANol
sPlAsHi ouRotE, ouRclEl
"This way men" shouted DR.. Te.d.
waving revolver In each hand, where
upon he fell headlonE down into the
sevine. shooting wildly as be rolled.
Dr.. Teed stopped shooting a. he
plunged into the creek and disappeared
beneath the chuckiing waves. Luck.
w his bullets had done no further
harm than infiict slight scatches upon
two prominent undertakers. who soon
Joined him In the crock.
Councilman Eckcrt led q separate
posse down into the ravine In an even
more sensational manner. Sending
Councilman Sullivan ahead OF him.
Dckert tripped over q wire fence, car
omed against q boulder and then sailed
through the air until he landed upon
the shoulders Of Councilman Sullivan.
Each thought the other the escaping
burglar. and all that saved their lives
was the fact that they had dropped
their revolvers In transit. As Il was,
the noise they made brought many bull
lsts their way. but all the shots were
Wild.
~ WAS THE cAT-ANo THE
BURGLAR GOT AWAY.
There was a terrific din down there
IN the ravine by the time Onlcer Van
Dyke arrived and unlimbered his
hardware. After shooting In the ali
and commanding the burglar to come
up out OF the ravine. Van Dyke ven.
tursd down by . back path until he
came TO the bank OF the creek, on
which stood q large packing case.
Something moved In the packing
ease and Van Dyke began shooting
Presently q cat came out of the pack.
log case and went up q tree. Van
Dyke wasn't sure II was cat and
went up another tree to Investigate
BY this time. II 10 estimated, the bur.
glar would have had time to walk e
Easton. Pa. or Freeport. l.. I. 1t 4,
also reckoned twenty-four prominent
cttisens fell in the rsvine and that =.
total of one hundred shots was fired.