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Show BURGLAR ROUTED I BY BHIN I baVaVb mrs. van horn discover8 in- bbj truder on return home b After short absence. ENTERS QUIETLY AND GETS GUN H BB Fires 8everal Shots at Thief Who BBJ Plunges Head Foremost Through BBJ Window and Escapes Po- BBJ lice Then Notified. BBJ St. Louis. Surprising n burglar at BBJ work in hor homo on hor roturn nftor BWJ a short absence, Mrs. Amos Van Horn BBJ of Keokuk street got a rovolver. BBJ chased tho man from tho houso and BBJ fired sovoral shots at his fleeing flguro BBJ shortly aftor nine o'clock tho othor Bj evening. The Intruder had ransacked BBJ tho houso and stolon $G5 In money. A BBJ qunntlty of clothing nnd somo Jowelry BBJ which ho hnd packed up ready to BBJ carry away waB abandoned in bis BBJ BBJ Mrs. Van Horn and her two small BBJ children hnd gono to n moving picture BBJ show In tho neighborhood and dlscov- Hj erod tho burglnr on their roturn. Mrs. BBJ Van Horn's husband Is a railroad man Bvl employed In East St. Louis. Ho BBJ works at night nnd sho ls accustomed BBJ to being nlono with her children. BBJ As sho approached tho houso on BBJ her roturn sho saw a light burning in BBJ a middle room. Ilememborlng that she BBJ had ft no light In tho houso, sho at BBJ first thought her husband had ro- BBJ turned, but decided to investigate bo- BBJ foro entering tho houso. Leaving tho BBJ children In front of tho houso, sho BBJ went to a sldo window and, pocrlng BBJ In, saw a man kncoltng on tho floor BBJ sorting out a pllo of clothing and BJ othor personal effects. The contents BBJ of drnwers and dressors strewn about BB tho room Informed her that the In BBJ trudcr was a burglar. BBJ Going to tho front door she opened BB It with n key and qulotly slipping Into BB tho house went to a drcssor and bo- BB cured her husband's revolvor. Armed BB with tho weapon sho calmly walkod BB acroB3 tho hall to tho room whero tho BB Mr. Van Horn Continued to Shoot at BB the Burglar. BB burglar was at work. As she did so BB sho heard a scramblo which told hor BB tho burglar was warned of her pros- BB ence In tho houso. Sho throw open BB tho door and ran Into tho room, Just BB In tlmo to see the man struggling to BB raise a window. BB Leveling tho pistol she fired a shot BB at tho man Just as he toro up tho sash BB and leaped head first through tho win- BB dow. Itunnlng to tho window, Mrs. BB Van Horn, now frightened for tho BB safety of her children who were In BB front of the houso, continued to Blioot BB at tho fleeing man as ho disappeared BB in tho darkness. BB A moment lator a dozen neighbors BB wero on tho sceno nnd a hurried BB search was made for tho burglar with- BB out avail. Mrs. Van Horn called up BB Night Chief of Pollco Glllaspy and asked that a policeman bo sont to tho BB house. Patrolman Krekler of tho BB Wyoming street station wont to tho BB houso and mado a roport on tho rob- BB bory. BB Mrs. Van Horn wns qulto unablo to kR glvo a good description of tho man as U v his back wns turned whon sho looked Into the room, nnd sho Is not certain SKxH whether ho Is whlto or black. Tho thief, who hnd securod ontranco to 'ffii the houso by duplicate keys through a '$J& roar door, had evidently been at work IxW for somo tlmo. If ' |