Romance Of A Burglar

Burglar Jimrny Hope's unwilling return to Neiw York recalls some interest facts in the career of his pal, Big Frank McCoy. The latter was a New York boy, the son of respectable parents. His mother left him a snug fortune, which the yOMiismanp-omptly spent in riotou.s Thieves and cutthroats were his companions, and wben his inheritanee was spent he drifted into crime. He was a. man of fair education and good address, and lie married an attractive woman. For some time he lived the life ot a gentlenianly burglar at New Haven, Conn. He and his wife had rooms at a fashionable hotel, and were on easy turma with the pleasantest people in the house. The daughtcr of a former eovernor ot Connecticnt becanie deeply interested in tho couple. McCoy was subject to niysterious disappearanees, but for the most part he lived a life of elegant leisure in and about the hotel. While he was recover ing from aseriousiliness the povernor's dauchter loaned him a novel whose hero led a doublé life, that of a business man and that of a burglar. McCoy handeil the bookback with the dry comment that the story was interesting buthinhly improbable. Soon after McCoy had one of his puriodical absences, and one morning the governors daughter was shocked to learn that he had been airested for complicity in a bank bursilary at Wilmington, Del. McCoy went to the whippiii-posr, but he did not tay loni in the Delawafe ja.il. He appeared in the jail corridor one morniii and said to the sheriff a wiíe: "Good by, Mrs. Grubb, I'm jjoms." "Oh Ml ecream if yoi .10." waf the arswer of ■■ the he'plesa Mrs. Grubb, and therj McCoy sped throug the open door.