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Show .Woman Comes Face to Face f ' With Burglar ii Basement of Home. POLICE ARE COGNIZANT OP OTHER INSTANCES' 'ltesi dents Make Complaints of Intruders Who Appear After Dark. ' - Night, prowlers, bout upon burglary, J nrc terrorizing the citizens in the ncigh- j borhood of Fifth East and Thirteenth South streets, and have broken into one I residence in that vicinity. Frequent , alarms from thai neighborhood have j beeii sent in to the police department, j!Jt'j 1 :m(l two or three mounted mou arc iV::''l scouring tbo terrorized territory in I search of the midnight intruders, who ' have been climbing porches, trying j j doors with skeleton keys and attcmpt- T ing'lo pry open windows. One of the rosidenr.es entered was f that of Peter Kaas. near Fifth Fast and Thirteenth South streets. Face to face with a burglar was the experience of "Miss "Marie Kaas, Lawrence Thomp-j Thomp-j hoIi, who lives at the Kaas home, and , a cousin of the family visiting at the 5 Kaas residence. The trio uero fright- ! ,' oncd out of their wits and the burglar was somewhat nonplussed, so much so. in .fact, that he fled through the window by which he entered without obtaining anvbootv. Eiss Marie. Thompson and the cousin Playing at the Kaas home while the rest of the family is in Idaho attending the funeral of a relative," went to the basement, base-ment, to get kindling for the nest morning;, morn-ing;, "Wednesday night. Entering the underground room, they turned tho lights on and found themselves face to face with the burglar. Thoy flew to (he upper part of the house, while the . burglar escaped through the basement, i , Lad Shows Roal Stuff, i j A man answering the description of 'ihc would-be burglar appeared at John Ifvan's home at J3Jo Fifth Fast street " Thursday morning between S and 9 ib o'clock and askid Richard ,'Jcnnings. 16 1 . .vears old. who is employed at the. Ryan J . Lome, for money. The youth told him 1 he had none and the beggar attempted i to force his war into the house, but was 1 , ,, stopped by the" boy. Begging for cloth . ., ' jug, he then asked the boy's lathor a occupation, and the lad possessed wit ' r p enough to reply that he was a. poliee- "r man. The, man 's face "went white, and, stammering that the father's clothes would do him- no good, virtual!' ran away from t,he place. p Mrs. Ryan immediately reported the . circumstance to the police, furnishing a ,y .description of tho intruder. She says that recently she has been awakened ' Ji two oi three time? by night prowlers -wC4an?beriiig over tne porches, trying door kovs and prving at windows. Two nights ago she heard a footstep upon ' ' tho porch and the. sound of keys. slip ping into locks, but when she turned on the lights and raised the window the prowler fled-' fled-' . Other, neighbors have reported simi- ' lor disturbances, and mounted police men have been dispatched to that neigh-borhood neigh-borhood to keep a lookout for the midnight mid-night intruders. |