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Show SHE CAUGHT A BURGLAR Lone Woman Trapped a Housebreaker; Held for the Police. sBBBSBSssBaaaB LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 24. Mrs. Robert Lechleiter of No. 1332 Fifteenth street, unarmed and single-handed, routed a negro burglar and held him at bay in the rear yard of her home until the arrival of Policemen McAuIlffe and Osborne, who placed him under arrest and brought him to Central station, where the charge of housebreaking was registered against him. Mrs. Lechleiter locked up her home in the afternoon and left it. An hour later, la-ter, when she returned home and opened her front door, she was surprised to find her furniture disarranged and the contents of drawers and closets strewn over the floor. She remembered havins seen two policemen approaching as fhe entered the house, and, knowing that they would pass that way, set about to find the burglar before their arrival. They were one square away and walking walk-ing slowly when she saw thehi. Without a weapon of any kind In her hand, Mrs. Lechleiter had passed through the dining-room and was entering enter-ing the kitchen, when the negro sprang through the open sash of the kitchen window into the back yard. He thought to make his escape by scaling the back fence, but found that it Was too high. Turning, he meant to run through the latticed gate that separates the front and back yards, and make his escape over the front fence, but he found the courageous woman blocking his way. In an effort to frighten her, the negro drew from his pocket a knife and threatened to cut her heart out unless she stood aside. Mrs. Lechleiteh maintained main-tained a bold front and dared the negro to carry out his threat. By that time the police had arrived in front of the house and Mr. Lechleiter called to them. They covered the negro with their revolvers, and he dropped his knife and surrendered without the least show of fight. The negro burglar gave his name as William Allen, and stated that he arrived ar-rived in Louisville from Cincinnati about two days ago. He was a rousty on one of the small line boats. He is about 25 years old and coal black. He gained an entrance to the Lechleiter home by breaking a pane of glass in the rear kitchen window, reaching his hand through and turning the latch. He had secured nothing of value, when discovered discov-ered by Mrs. Lechleiter. When asked why she did not summon aid when she found that her home had been broken into, she stated that she feared the negro might yet be in the house, and that he would make his escape es-cape during her absence. |