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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1902)
THE COURIER 11 What Bo? What would you do If a burglar should call unannounced between mid night and early morn? It all depends upon circumstances many will say. Of course, but the method of procedure naturally sim mers down to one of two things to do something or nothing. It might be the best plan to try a little of both. Should a cracksman appear at the window ledge, slowly crawling in, and you have a revolver, first make sure It is a robber and then plug him. Aim for a vital spot and let the prowler have all the lead you can possibly give him. Should the job be neat and scientific you will suffer no inconvenience ex cept a half day spent, in consultation with the coroner's jury. But the burglar will come when you are not looking and when the gun Isn't loaded. In such a case keep cool, col lected and take notes. Try to get a personal description and when the gen tleman leaves, call up the police and tell all you know. All the professional crooks and robbers are photographed accurately and well upon the retinas of the police and It Is just a question of getting next to your man and telling what you see. With a good descrip tion, the burglar can, In most cases, be leadlly located. Murders are often scheduled as a result of an excited and foolhardy attempt to resist a burglar. Generally the visitor will not do any thing desperate unless it Is a case of kill or capture, but lots of times the miscreants are cowards at heart and will not hesitate In their cravenness to take the life of an unarmed but courageous man In order to get away. In most cases the s-take at issue is not worth resistance and it is better to trust to the ofllcers of the law for capture. Chloroform, drugs and sedatives are rarely used by burglars except In the realm of fiction. In most cases they plan their visits when the members or the family are either absent or asleep. Daring robberies even have taken place when a party or reception has .been in full blast. The robbers dress up, mingle with the guests and escape undetected. Then the loss Is discovered and the robbery credited to a latter date. Unknown agents, vendors and mendicants are often the forerunners of the burglars. The latter usually know what Is to be had from a raid before they incur the risk and their information comes in every instance from "pikers." Tons of literature have been ground out eulogizing the brave and impassive knight behind the throttle, holding the lives of hundreds in their hands. Like every other form of imaginative lauda tion it Is greatly overdone at times, for many engineers admit that there aro moments in their lives when they are completely and thoroughly scared. And generally it Is some little thing, something unusual looming into sight at an unexpected moment. The long course of training to which an engineer is subjected makes him peculiarly In sensate to ordinary events on an en gine, such as the jolting and jarrlns or the high rate of speed, which so unfavorably affect the novice and make him "scary." Moonlight nights always give creepy impressions but their frequency soon dispels all alarm and, in some cases, inspire the men with a feeling of reck lessness. "About the worst scare I ever got happened in broad daylight not long ago." said a veteran engineer to a rep resentative of the Courier. "We were sailing along a smooth, level track about 3 o'clock In the afternoon. The sun shone along the rails, making them It was swallowed up In the darkness, which happened to be the division smooth and glistening. Stupefied and bewildered the engineer point. The engineer was taken home "Suddenly my eye became riveted on made a frantic grab among the levers, to recuperate and the engine was taken a yawning gap In the off rail about a the train rushing on. In charge by the hostler. The latter quarter of a mile ahead. A portion of When he finally succeeded in slowing found u dead hawk on the floor of the the track was undoubtedly missing. ,iOWn, his engine was gilding around cab- We were running at forty miles an one of the most abrupt curves on the T,ie 'tr f the bird solved the hour with six coaches. n,le 0f track. The light was In a farm mystery. The hawk was flying In a "I should have reached for the house directly In the path where the direction opposite to th engine and. throttle like they always do In the railroad would have been had the olll- "! b' the headlight. Hopped In at story books, but I didn't. Instead I claK not uiken the notion to swerve the onen window, dealing the engineer just sat there like a fool. I couldn't It to the north. a knockout blow. think. I couldn't cry out. I couldn't CK-rr.sloni'.lly something happens that slx hours of rest enabled the knight move. makes the souls of the superstitious of lhe throttle to get perfect control of "Meanwhile the train dashed along seek frantically for an explanation. ",! breathing apparatus and he r-- h .iia f..,M,i0 ii.n .. in nJuiiif - i i. , , covered entirely from the effects of the the rails towards the gap. in auoui One night an engineer was gulling a half a minute after I got rattled we fast eastbound passenger train. The ,,xnerlt'nce- were almost upon the break. A spar- window' leading to the running board 'c '" '"' row darted from the rails and dlsap- was open T,,e kllBilt of tne throttle There are moments so bitter that peared. Then the yawning gap van- was ie.lnjng out of the side window. tears are. a sacrilege. ished also just as the engine rushed A ,roaj expanse of the front of lfls The Woman being obdurate. Love rt- upon it. The bird had thrown a bllt? OVer.,ns were turned toward Hi, sorted to the usual artifice and took shadow on the rail. Scared! I didn't opening. Suddenly he was doubled up away the man's appetite. get over that for a couple of days." witn xl stunning blow Immediately be- "It must be a snap cooking for him." Another engineer was almost fright- neath the belt. In the gloom of the reflected the Woman, observing this, ened Into fits by the sudden appear- cab there was nothing to Inflict such and being of a practical turn of mind. ance of a beam of light. He was ex- punishment and ho tried In a dazed she married the man forthwith. pecting to pass a freight train at the way to figure out the cause of the Of course when she discovered the next town and was humming along trouble. deception that had been practiced on at the best passenger speed. 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