Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1912 — SQUIRT GUN AWES BURGLAR [ARTICLE]

SQUIRT GUN AWES BURGLAR

Huge Bluff With "Deadly Weapon* Nearly Makes Woman Faint in New Y'wtr. New York. —Mrs- S*rah Ehrlich, wife of a wealthy fur Importer, found a strange man In her home at 3258 Decatur avenue, the Bronx, pat a pistol at his head, made him drop two parcels containing jewels and silverware and marched him five blocks to the Bronx Police station. She was oa the verge of fainting prhen she handed her “revolver” to Lieutenant Brown. Then It was her prisoner’s Jtorn to collapse when the policeman burst into laughter as he held up the “deadly weapon.” a bicyclist's squirt gun.