Show THIEF WS COURTEOUS Surprised at His Work by a Beautiful Girl SHE WAS NOT FRIGHTENED Invites Burglar Sit Down and Talk it Over Polite Invitation of Young Woman is Declined Confederates Are Called Off and Party Leaves New York Jan 6flaflhes that most entertaining 01 gentlemen burglars I bur-glars and Bunny his amiable and unsophisticated friend have seemingly taken up quarters in New York judging from the experience Miss Jeannette Thurber had with two courteous and affable cracksmen In the home of her father at ol West Twentyfifth street S Interrupted In his work of going through the room of F B Thurber her father the head of the gang working In the house engaged In the Interchange of airy peislfiage with Miss Thurber for a few minutes adding something 0 1m presslveness to his remarks with IL revolver re-volver ant then leaving her quietly seated In the room withdrew meanwhile mean-while calling off his confederates Miss hUber Identified her unannounced unan-nounced caller after a search through the Rogues gallery Albert Matthews recently released from Sing Sing where he served l term for burglary was at once pointed out by 1 Miss Thurber as the man whom she met so unconventionally In her fathers room Mies Jeannette Thurber is the daughter daugh-ter of F B Thurber for many years Identified with the big wholcsole grocery firm of Thurber Whyland Co MEETS BURGLAR Soon after t oclock Miss Thurbpr went to her fathers room to leave on his dresser s note she had written him about some household matter As she stepped quietly through the open door she noticed that the light was burning dimly and then with a shock that almost startled her out of her ordinary ordi-nary composure she saw standing in front of the table In the center of the room a welldressed goodlooking young man going carefully over the contents of a drawer he had taken from one of Mr Thurbcrs desks What In the world are you doing here cried Miss Thurber CRACKSMAN HAD NERVE The intruder turned sharply and faced Miss Thurber without embarrassment embarrass-ment Then he reached down to the table ta-ble and picked up a heavy revolver CatchinG Miss Thurber by the shoulder shoul-der the burglar forced her into a chair and thrust the muzzle of the revolver between her eyes I Now dont say a word or raise a cry lie said rather angrily Id hate to have to shoot you Miss Thurber Is a tall statuesque fair girl 21 i years of age and strikingly beautiful She Is not easily frightened and she accepted the situation us gracefully grace-fully us possible Sit down she said graciously Let me talk to you Id lee to talk this over with you Thank you said the burglar you can easily understand that this is no 5 oclock tea Then turning to a corner he said quietly I Bill go upstairs and tel Jncc to setout set-out Its all off S THIEVES SKIP OUT From behind a pair of portieres a heavyset man who has not been Identi fed by Miss Thurber slipped out and stepped quietly Into the hall She heard him go upstairs and soon after heard two men walk quietly downstairs to the first loon Wont you sit down said Miss Thurber smiling pleasantly at the burglar bur-glar Father will be home shortly I hope Thank you again said the cracksman cracks-man but Im not a bit tired and moreover more-over Ive never met your father He might think It I extremely unconventional of me to be maltIng free of his room In his absence No more so than I do said Miss Thurber Why do you do It 1 Oh largely because it leads to pleasant pleas-ant acquaintances said the young man affably as he backed to the door and then more sternly anc Remain seated right Where you are for ten minutes Dont i stir Ill hear you if you do and It niay cause lots of trouble I may have to commit a more serious crime than burglary If you cry outThen Then with the revolver still strongly In evidence the burglar backed quietly out of the door coor ENTER THE DETECTIVE A telephone message was sent to po lice headquarters asking that detectives be sent at once to the house Detectives Detec-tives Duffey and Phillips from the West Thirtieth street station arrived and made n tlioiouph search of the house They found evidence of the visit of the three burglars Nothing was taken from the house except ex-cept a heavy Colts revol r the weapon used tolntlmldate Miss Thurber |