Show a I C w a 4 F c d f f Betide my bed rs a masked man holding 4 t S rd a flashlight m mone one hand f ts s t and with the other pointing a gun at my mys s head Hold your Longue e growled r or youre you're a dead tk I woman 11 b r l b 1 E 4 1 j y a I c I i 0 1 1 2 s y yf f bf by R e r r 6 b as ae i ib 4 i 4 u J x r n Y y How Her Earnest Talk to the Masked t Rob err Who rho Appeared at Her HerN N w Bedside Saved Her From Serious a d dK K 4 Injury and Perhaps Death J Mrs Mr Mr Gerald P Morehouse w who o kept a hold up ma man from getting here her V 7 I P A yf On the right members of II B I Ii t tf valuable diamond rings by distracting d his attention witha with steady flow t IIi I tJ a L r t f fone B one of f Mr Mrs Mr- Charles Sum Sum- iJ II 2 of talk Ul- Ul UlM M RJ ner Her Millers Miller's Ue prison pecan wel welfare are T 1 fir r l RS CHARLES SUMNER MIL MIL- MILLER MIL MILLER 11 MRS M LER LIR is a wealthy healthy woman Homan oman who oho ho devotes much of her life and a great deal of her money mone money to helping con con- convicts con convicts get new ambitions amb in m prison and a new ne start in to life he hehen w hen hen en they get out Long ago Mr Mrs Miller found out through her prison work worl that mo most t criminals have havea liavaa a very ery ery decent decer streak to them come ome here despite all their knaver knavery The aim ami of her work ork is to find md that decent streak and develop it by what hat she calls the tho perso BI touch As the re result o of the goo good a seeds she has hasSO hasson SO SOn n ex corn ex-corn letS from all over the coun- coun coun t reformed and prosperous and honest have hae turned up the green path to Ms MIS Millers Miller's country house in rn Chappaqua a Westchester county suburb of New YOI York City to thank her for tor what hat she once did dICI for them With her kindly common sense and sincere faith she has patted her burglar boys on the back and said Dont thank me thank God Im I'm Just HIs instrument Now I want you to keep as you ou hale haie honest begun begun honest on the square Although Mrs Miller his known ln bur burglars glare for many runny years ears it was Has as only a fe fedas fc days das ago that she had her first perl experience e experience en ence e eIth with Ith them in the i m professional ca en- en cn Three nen men s with Ith guns and elec electric flashlights called upon her one on Oil night ed to kill her if necessary to get ct gether gether her money and jewels Je But she talked to them straight from the shoji der sho shoulder lder Ju just t as she talks to tl in jail and prison and the I was that they went ent away t I to take her life or ien e-ien to chloroform liei het The nud night miJ-night nIght sermon she the had the courage COUI age to preach to this h hio no 10 of desperadoes was What hat saved sa Cd her from harm So the police and so the burglars themselves confessed a little later when hen they were caught I had gone to bed that evening at about eleven says sa s Mrs Miller 1 in de- de de describing scribing her experience It must have been nearly t two 0 hours Inter later when I 1 awoke with a 11 stifling feeling The all air vas heavy with a peculiar odor As I later found out it came from a towel soaked with chloroform which had been spread over my face end and which I must have swept away before Iwas I was fully av awake ake As I lay there d and bewildered bewildered de dered red I 1 heard a y y step and through thy lh the darkness I 1 saw a mans man's shadowy fi figure ure approaching me Is that you Sumner I 1 called thinking Burely aurely it must be my husband For Tor answer er the man quickened his hi pace and came close to my bed bedside bide The bullseye e of an electric lamp broke the th darkness and by its light I 1 IV V saw a masked man holding the lamp lump m in mone one hand and with Ith the other pointing a agun agun gun at my head I Hold your our tongue be lie gro growled led or youre you're oure a dead woman oman I 0 a I ti c a r r y n g 4 s I lay there too frightened frightened to toti Christmas gifts to convicts speak and g prays g for a vy to do was best to do t y 91 F 1 0 other masked men crept into the room They seemed surprised sed sedOn f fM M lr 1 3 On the left the late to see me mg I there with mth my Lyons who was known for eyes wide open e t years as the Queen of the J s Why dont don't you OU gle gise her the Burglars but who later laterre f ft t a muttered one of them yf v formed end and was an honest f n t Knock het hel on the head or sho shore e t 1 r woman for the rest of her ber bera herg g y a gag dorm donn her throat before she life xi lets out a yowl owl r to and queers ever every every- x x k thing 4 f I thought my l k tune time rind had come But somehow m in n nr r that moment of o oin 4 s r agonizing hens i a strange strange coma a filled me meI t tI I foam foun my voice y wy se r a and as I started y t j jn n ti tia tia a a tt i talking g softly I 1 i v tvS actually managed r r a t k a ae aF e F 4 to rn 1 muster ter a ho f ip ipe r k I e t W low lIttle Ia Oh no my 4 a 11 N Nt t f 00 good friends Isaid I r t said In sur sure C k j t a you ou arc not go r cy Ill I'll to do me d F an r aIlY Y v tl 7 y harm harn 1 l Three h r e e ea v s a r el m e ii 11 s against t one de s u Oman onlan Omans 7 k s w t tr r v vr r shy hy that's hardly idly a tm i 4 IO 1 k yh I I know hun bun A Jail school In in Chicago where prisoners prisoners are 81 given ven the education that will help them to turn their ba backs ks on crime Y of cf b bU U I glees g I Ia 1 a r s up bald men lUen pickpockets and criminals of every kind Imd 1 r to make them see ee that crime does docs not pay and to help them get started ing ted in some decent honorable way of hung J is the chief business of my lIfe Rut nut among all these men I know both In Inand inand end and out of prison I dont don't believe there IS ISone isone isone one who would could treat a defenceless woman ai 81 you ha have e dOing To my surprise e and delight I saw that r y sudden bunt buret of frank flank speech was making a deep impression It was the thelast thelast last thing these men had expected and they were HI e quite plainly uncertain how to meet mett this unusual ua situation Their disquietude gave me new cour cour- courage courage If I could hold hod age their attention for a afew afew afew few minutes longer longel perhaps my husband sleeping fn an a loom room some distance away ay or er one of the servants right might come como to my aId I had considerable money jewelry elry and other valuables in the room but I did not mind losing these EH SQ much as I dId certain precious family keepsakes keep oakes akes You dont don't nerd ne d to chloroform or shoot file are or hit bit me 0 over oscr cr the he head 1 went on almost ns liS coolly as If it I were chatting across a tea table I am am not going to tomake tomake tomake make any outcry I am going to help you ou get anything in this room you want But first I wart art to say say just Just a few words of advice ad aduce advice which you will hill wr wish h you had followed ollo when you finally land landin landin m in prison You may escape punishment for tor this CI crime ime but sooner or later you will be caught and convicted The game you are pla is one even the cleverest crime crimi criminals nals can never beat for very ary long And after the they have spent a few of the best years of their 11 lies li es caged up like wild beasts how they wish they had bad never tried to live by stealing and killing I Hundreds of prisoners at Sing Sing where I go every week have confessed as much to me With tears m In their eyes they tell me mc what a ghastly mistake they made in thinking crime an easy and safe safo safeway way to a wealth and happiness Now they know Inow better Now they realize that they can never Cr be r and contented until they get back into honest hones t decent uses ll 11 cs Of course you have ha heard of Buffalo Joe He lie was Mas as one of the boldest and clev dev cleve cleverest e erest est ever win win- window and do dow and he is one pf If of my best beet friends When h he finished the last of SIX si prison terms five Ive years ears ago he turned his back on crime and started going straIght With my help he got a place on a ranch In California day To-day he is part owner of that ranch lanch I me every week and in every letter Utter lliter he tells me he hc never near knew before what a satisfaction it is to tobe tobe tobe be able to hold up his head and look his fellow men in to the face At this point my voice failed me The wave wave of nervous energy that had buoyed me up was ebbing and again agam I felt faint and trembling But I verily believe that if I could have preached to those men a afew afew afew few minutes longer I might have induced them to leave leavo my house empty handed and perhaps never to undertake another crime They stood for a minute ill III Illat at ease case The one who oho had bad first approached my bed and who seemed to be the leader broke the tho silence All right maam ma'am he said In a tone very different from what he had used before we sure suro will think about what you say But weve we've just got to have the stuff we came after night to-night If It you'll leep I a quiet tongue in m your head and show us where it is rs we wont won't do you any harm I gave my promise At my dIrection one of the burglars brought from the closet my dressing gown and slippers I Imade Imade Imade made the men turn their backs bachs while I stepped out of bed and put these things on Then I walked across the room to little safe set into the wall and with shaking hands gave the knob the series senci of turns that opened t the the e door The bur bur- burglars bur burglars started tilling filling their pockets and a cloth bag with my valuables while I 1 slumped down exhausted m in a chair One of the first things they took out of the safe was w as a string of gold beads I Those were my mothers mother's I said She gave them to me on her deathbed Please dont don't take them away from me But my plea went unheeded The beads disappeared into the bulging bag bagI I 1 began to think that my sermonizing had not touched the burglars hearts as much as I thought At last the safe was emptied The robbers held a whispered consultation and I knew they were discussing whether It wouldn't be better to chloroform me or silence me in m some other n way ay ay before they left Dont worry about my giving the alarm Isaid I 1 said I I promise not to leave this room or call anybody until you have been gone a hour half Again Agam my frank speech left these three men flabbergasted f flabbergasted They stood staring at me as if they didn't know hat shat to make of a woman who talked lIke this Well take your our word lady at last the leader said A half half- TwI hour by that clock dock on the mantel And after And after fans fum fumbling I bling in his bag of loot loot- loot heres here's those beads you so hate to lose A hour haf bour later when Mrs Miller aroused ceased her ber husband it was found that the telephone wires had been cut and the Millers automobIle was wu gone This meant of course great de- de delay de delay lay in notifying the police but in spite of this the thieves were arres arrested d In New NewYork NewYork York the day They proved to be desper desper- desperate desperate desperate ate characters and the po- po police po police lice were surprised that Mrs Miller had bad not fared I worse at their hands bands Students of the psychology psychology ogy of criminals say there is nothing which upsets a burglar or up hold man more than to meet a steady y flow of calm conversation from a victim Instead of the frightened silence or orthe orthe orthe the resistance or the hys- hys hysterical hys hysterical cries he expects J Very often otten it takes taku him so 1 long to regain his ha mental balance that his hig plans plane plan are spoiled and his hla would would-be would VictIms VictIm's life and property are saved The late Sophie Lyons known for years as the F Queen of the Burglars 4 j used to say that in III all her criminal career she never disconcerted than was more e when a woman she w was a s about to rob at the he point of ofa ofa a revolver petulantly reo re- remarked marked sake lake take off that Oh for tor goodness hIdeous mask It gives elves me the creeps t d A always wanted to see and besides Ive I've crook really looks hooks like what a woman In New York only the other day saved several Morehouse ouse Mrs Gerald P thousand dollars worth of diamond rings by distracting his from a holdup man attention with a steady flow of conversa conversa- conversation conversation conversation tion While he searched her ber shopping bag which really held nothing of value she pleaded volubly with him to spare her the diamond necklace she said it con con- contained contained At the same time the she managed managed- r to slip off her rings inside the silk gloves she rho wore ore and hide them In her dress A Western bank cashiers cashier's ready tongue once bank and brought about the arrest of a thief WIth a gun pointed Into bl his hia face he be en- en engaged engaged en engaged the bandit in conversation ando and so occupied his attention that one of the tho theother theother other bank employees ces had bad time to call the police Mrs Millers Miller's recent remarkable experience experience burglars has only intensified shied her Iler interest in her work among cons com lets And from now on she the will ll 1 make a special effort to reform r form the three mon men who listened to toJ he her er midnight ht ermo sermons ermon |