Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1910 — Petty Thieving and House Breaking Reported Frequently. [ARTICLE]

Petty Thieving and House Breaking Reported Frequently.

Some one forced an entrance through an upstairs window to the Monnett School for Girls Monday evening at about 9:30 o’clock. The matron, who was writing letters in a lower room, heard some one walking upstairs and instituted a search on her own behalf, but finding no one, resumed her writing. A little later, however, a man walked up on the back porch and tried to get into the house that way. The nightwatch was summoned, as also were neighbors, but the intruder had made his escape. Quite a party of men and boys followed the nightwatch to'the scene, but no trace of the burglar could be found, although the broken window screen and cracked pane showed where he had broken into the upstairs apartments. A few minutes before the matron was first attracted by the noise, two young ladies reported having seen two strangers in the neighborhood and that as they passed by, a dark lantern was flashed in tjieir faces. Sunday night a man was discovered in the kitchen at Bert Camp’s residence, at the old Kelley property. Mrs. Camp thought it was her husband, and speaking his name, went into the kitchen. He was Just about to decamp with the silverwear, but her appearance caused him to take fright and he dropped knives, forks and spoons on the floor and beat a hasty retreat. It is probable that- much of this thieving is done by some young man and it is hoped he he will be apprehended and a stop put to the practice which is terrorizing women all over town.