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Show After Being Trapped the Bold Intruder Gets Away Denver, Jan. 23. A burglar and a .sflnad of policemen fought a battle early yesterday in 'the home of the Rev. H. Martyn Hart, dean of St John's cathedral, in the heart of the fashionable residence district. A servant discovered the burglar as he was effecting an entrance through a window, telephoned for the police and also gave the alarm to the dean and the choir of his church who were at a rehearsal across the street. Dean Hart and members of the choir formed a cordon around the house, while a squad of officers, who arrived in an automobile, entered the house with pistols drawn. The burglar was surprised In the act of rifling a chest of silver He opened Are Immediately, dashed headlong head-long tnrough a window and, amid a fusillade of bullets, made his escape. No one was injuied. Tho robber made away with jewelry valued at ?200. |