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A Brave Woman

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
August
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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In Augusta, Georgia, recently, at the boarding house of Mrs. Bernard, a buiglar, Bupposed to be one of the colored waiters at the house (Charley Soott), secreted himself in the rooms of Mrs. Henry E. Christian, who was preparing to join her husband in Augusta. Mrs. Christian heard during the night noises in her daughter's room, and woke up her daughter several times to ask her if she was restless. At length, towards morning, Mrs. Christian dozed lightly for a short time, and awoke at the sound of a rustling noise to see the obscure but yet perceptible figure uf a man some ílve or six feet from the foot of the bed and at the left, on his knees, fumbling in a dress that lay at the foot of a lounge by the window, juit opposite the door of the room entering into the hall. Startled, but not terrified, the courageous lady realized the situation at once, and shouting to her daughter to awake her, and telling her to cry out for help, she herself, screaming " thieves," flew out of her bed and boldly rushed at the daring burglar. He stood still for a moment, when she seized him by the arm. He, not uttering a word, hurled her from him with all his force and broke for the window, and began working to unlatoh the closed blind. Nothing daunted, and sared from falling by her trunk at the bed, the brave-spirited lady again rushed to cfttoh hold of the burglar. She could not distinguish his features, but she had a clear idea of his size, and could disuern the flaih of his eyes. This time she oaught him by the suspender. He had suoceeded in getting one of the blinds open by this time, and desperately sprang through the window, and just outside was a tree, into which he landed. His suspender broke in her hand, and as he lit into the branches of the tree he led mmseli by catchmg the window sill with one hand. By this time some of the people in the houae and in the neighborhood were aroused. Hopeful of holding him until assistanoe could come, the lady seized the hand momentarily clinging to the window sill, but was unable to hold it. The burglar dropped to the ground, sorambled over the fence, flew into a gulley baok of the house and managed to escape, being soon after followed by two policemen, who made the arrest of the waiter Soott, whose foot juBt fitted the tracks made by the burglar who oarried off the pocket-book of Mm. Chris:ian, containing $50, which bas not yet Deen recovered.

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Old News
Michigan Argus