Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — A Burglarious Incident [ARTICLE]

A Burglarious Incident

An actor told a story the other evening about a fencing master in London who has two sons. Both of them, like the father, were physical giants. Who was the strongest and best fighter was a disputed question until a burglar got into the house one night One of the sons, opening the front dcor with a latchkey late at night, found a robber in the hall. They immediately clinched. The other brother, hearing the noise, rushed downstairs, and not being aole in the dark to distinguish a burglar from a worthy and honest citizen of Lindon, proceeded to pound both men whom he ran against. Meanwhile brother No. 1, thinking there were two burglars in the house, turned half of his attention to the new enemy and the tight became desperate. The father, awakened by the uproar, rushed down-stairs with a heavy walking-stick. Then the fight was something to admire, but to avoid. When it was all over and the gas was lighted by the aged fencingmaster, it was discovered that he had whipped not only the burglar, but his two sons. When this story was told an Englishman was one of the party. “Well,” he said, "I never before heard of a burglar so reckless as to enter the house of an English fencing-master. Served him right ” — New York Tribune,