| Show A close escape mr thomas wallace may be safely styled the coolest and mott mot mob audacious burglar in the state and though his bis path has been an humble one compared to those of duncan and tyler he has evinced a power of combining circumstances to advance his interests and free him from entanglements entangle ments that had he been educated in a higher school would have enabled him to steal the whole city in three weeks though for years past he has been operating in the city and has been in ja forced seclusion from the whirl of metropolitan life on numerous occasions he be did not distinguish himself until the burglary of oft T D lundys jewelry store on third street near mear market AI arket in december last about worth of jewelry was taken in less than an hour though thanks to the detectives the plunder was waa recovered and the bur bourglais burg lars lais captured in in less than a week rendi Pen ren dirig ilg tig examination by the grand jury helas released on bail hall with surprising cheek he began again and was the burglar who entered the house oft ort of T f davie davis on post street above powell rowell on this oc occasion eIon cion clon ula ilia companion shot a servant girl who bounded sounder an alarm aann and alid then escaped over the fence wallace shot at officer bennett who came running into the yard and then slammed thel the kitchen citchen door on the policeman leaving himself in possession of the house he then meet mr and mrs navis davis da vis who had come down stairs in their thelt night clothes by claiming in the darkness td 16 be a policeman he kept them 11 e m qu quiet le t and when whim the front door doon d 0 or was waa opened 0 p ened bundled them out a and aud u d the front steps and locked eked 0 the door on them although the honse was surrounded he escaped ca ped by leaping from a second story window to a high fence and thence the next yard jard for this he was also indicted and was this morning brought down to the municipal court for trial on the first indictment he sat quietly atthe endom end cud of the dock doek near the door that leads out into the tha court yard the room was full of bf jurymen juryman jury men officers and spectators when the sheriff went out to cail call cal cai in a jury however wallace coolly jumped over the railing and walked but of the door as if going to the tho water closel closet not an officer stopped him antl and no remark was made till the deputy sheriff returned with the jury after an absence of perhaps two minu minutes ter tei the boffl officer at once remarked wallaces absence and went luto thenard the yard after him he was not to be peen veed however having slid down one of the veran verandah dal dah posts to the yard below and either elther passed out through one of the saloons and stores that connect with the yard or FC fe created hemsi lf udder under the building several policemen provided themi belvels selves wb lighted candles and diligently tramped around in the mud aud and darkness but failed to find hio him hlo so that the probability is that he adopted ail opted the first named means and escaped to the street no one apparently saw him pass out from the yard however aa AO despite his adroitness he has been unlucky enough to get caught in nearly all of his of off lenses ensek the prospect is that his bis smiling face will again look out from behind the bars |
