Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — CLEVERLY CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

CLEVERLY CAUGHT.

The Rich Man's Fear of Burglars—The Story of an Electrician. [Buffalo (N. Y.) News.) At the dead of night Mr. J. B. Anthony, a wholesale grocer of Troy, N. Y., was awakened by his burglar alarm annunciator, which told him that his house had been entered through the roof scuttle. He hastily dresses, rings for a policeman, hurries to the upper story, and hears the burgtar in the servant’s room, threatening her with instant death if she made a loud noise. He was captured, convicted, and sentenced to Bing Bing prison for ten years. So said Mr. C. H. Westfall, the electrician of Westfield, N. Y., to our reporter. “Do city residents generally use burglar alarms?’* “Yes, all first-class houses are provided with them, and I have never had any dissatisfactio'n from my customers, many of whom are the best known and wealthiest people of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other large cities.’’ ‘•Do wealthy men have much fear of burglars?" “As a rule, wealthy men do not keep valuables in their house, and yet they arc not sure that they shall escape burglarious attacks, and they don’t feel secure without a first-class burglar alarm apparatus in their house. Every door, window, and scuttle is connected with the annunciator, and it is quite impossible to effect an entrance without the fact becoming at once known.” “Don't electricians run considerable risk in handling wires?" “Even the most careful of them sometimes get a shock. A few years ago, while I was descending stairs at Elmira, N. Y., with a wire coil in my hand, I felt as if I had received the entire charge from the battery. For over a half hour I suffered the keenest agony. 1 did not know but what I had been fatally injured. After completing my business circuit, 1 returned to Boston, and for eighteen months did not get over the shock. I loet my appetite; all food tasted alike. I could not walk across the common without resting several times.” “My head whirled, and I reeled like a drunken man. I consulted the best physicians in a good many large cities, but none of them seemed to understand my case. About a year ago I was in Albany, and a physician there stated that I would probably not live three months. But to-day," said Mr.-Westfall, and he straightened himself up with conscious pride, “so far as I know, I am in perfect health. I weigh 170 pounds, eat well, sleep well, feel well, and am well. One of my old physicians gave me a thorough examination a few weeks ago, and told me that I was in a perfect condition." “You are a very fortunate man, sir,” remarked the scribe, “to have escaped instant death alter an electrical shock.”

“Oh, it was not electricity that prostrated me. It was a uremic convulsion. For all my physicians told me I was a victim of a very serious kidney disorder. And when they and a dozen widely advertised medicines failed t > benefit me, Warner’s Safe Cure restored me to perfect health. That preparation is invaluable to every grade of society, for it is a priceless blessing.” “There is no need of death from handling electrical wires if the operators will exercise care. In our burglar alarm attachments there is no possible danger from that source.”