Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — New Way to Catch a Burglar. [ARTICLE]

New Way to Catch a Burglar.

Dr. Thomas H. Andrews, well known as the demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson College, returned to his home, No. 1117 Spruce street, about 1 o’clock yesterday morning. He was about retiring when he heard a noise down-stairs, and, going to the head of the stairway, he discovered the figure of a man moving about the parlor. The doctor, having

juo revolver, was nonplussed for the moment how to frighten the burglar, if not capture him; but, noticing a small paper bag on a stand, he blew it up, and, catching it at the top, cautiously made his way down-stairs. When near the bottom of the stairs, he Saw the man coming 'from the parlor. The doctor brought the bag down on the railing, and it exploded with a deafening report. The burglar tumbled over on the floor in a fright, and in an instant Dr. Andrews was upon him. The man begged the doctor to have mercy upon him, and said he was shot. The noise of the encounter awakened the inmates of the house, and a servant was dispatched for an officer. The frightened burglar continued to beg for mercy, saying that he had a wife and several children. He said hifl name was George Campbell; he was a bookkeeper and lived in Camden. After a short struggle the burglar succeeded in making his escape.— Philadelphia Press.