The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-08-28
WOMAN DYING or
BURGLARY SCARE
FEARS OWN SON

Philadelphia, Aug. 25.-Unable to
shake Off the terrible fear that gripped
her on Saturday night when she was
awakened by a burglar standing be-
side her bed, Mrs. Orlando H.. Kepl-r,
of 1920 North Fifty-fifth street, shrteks
with terror when anybody enters her
room n at intervals lapses into a
coma from which physicians are un-
able to rpuse her. .. r.
DIR. William ID. Bacon. of 400 North
F~ifty-fourth street, who is in constant
attendance, despairs of saving Mrs.
Kepler's life. 1T is said that the shock
she experienced caused a clot of blood
to form at the base of her brain. 1t
Is only in rare cases that a patient in
her condition RECEIVERS. It requires all
the strength Of a trained nurse to keep
the woman in bed when she energies
temporarily from periods of uncon-
seriousness. @ lg A.. '&s. .
Thinks Son a Burglar.
Notified by wire OF his mothers pre-
carious condition, John Drexel Kepler,
Of 104 South Sixty-f first street, returned
yesterday from Buffalo, where he had
gone on a business trip. His father is
hurrying home from New Orleans and
is expected today. When the son en-
tered the bedroom of his mother. she
sprang from her bed and covered shiv-
ering in a corner: . ~, -, r.
"Put him out OF the room" she
shrieked. h is a burglar and he is
going to kill me with a knife"
With difficulty she was returned to
the, bed, where h Immediately lapsed
into Inconsistencies. The son was SO
Mortified by the mental condition of his
mother that he burst into tears.
In her moments of consciousness, the
sight of a maj seems to bring back
viyidly the memory Of the awful mo-
ment when she awakened and saw the
figure of the burglar In her room. A
long sufferer from heart disease, the
shock descended upon her shattered
nervous system with triple force.
John Talent, the suspect who was
arrested early on Sunday morning by
the police Of the Sixty-first and Thomp-
son streets station, has been identified
by Mrs. John Drexel Kepler, daughter
inlaw of Mrs. Kepler, as a man who
had called at the Kepler home last Fri
day and begged for food at the rear
| door. .aa ..... Dr. '. -
Mrs. John Kepler was all alone ir
the kitchen at the time and she says
she was frightened by the rough APP
pearance OF the man. He made ar
effort, she says, to intimidate her and
demanded food! She gave him a cur
of coffee and some bread, and wheI
| he had finished he demanded more.
All the while he was eating his eyes
royed about the kitchen. Before he left
| he asked the young woman to get him
| a pair of shoes. Mrs. Kepler refused
| to comply with his request and ht
shuffled sullenly from the house.
Man Has Record.
Talent, the police say, has a Grim.
inal record. They declare that he il
subject to violent fits Of temper, served
| time in eastern penitentiary for ag.
grayated assault and battery, and has
also been arrested on several occa.
sions pm the charge of petty larceny
For the last two months he has beer
hanging about the vicinity of NORTH
from many residents. The police are
ly unbalanced and 1t is probable that
Magistrate Boyle committed him to
1 Moyamensing prison without bail or
| the charge of robbery.
home of the Keplers by prying opeT
went about his work methodically anC
made a thorough search Of the kitchen
and dining room. The following arti
cles were found wrapped in a red tabi,
cover which the burglar abandoned
when the screams of Mrs. Keplel
caused him to flee: A complete silver
service. including a butter dish, cream
| pitcher, nut set, bread tray, syruI
| pitcher, spoon holder and pickle dish
several dozen solid silver spoons, tive
dozen knives, several cut-glass dishes
five table cloths, a clock, and $40 II
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