Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1913 — BAFFLED BY MAN TRAP [ARTICLE]

BAFFLED BY MAN TRAP

Man Arrested for Burglary Bays Mo Spent a Night of Horror at Lakevlew. ■9 . . . - Alton, 11l. —Mark Podner, twenty- 1 three years old, was arrested at Lakeview, near here, on a charge of burglary and larcetoy. He owed his cap-' ture to a unique man trap, a maze, which the owner of the house had; constructed. The Lakevlew belongs to J. J. 81-< zant, who erected a castellated struo-' ture, surrounded by a moat and a drawbridge. Bizant made a maze with looking glasses in the house, and when. Podner broke into the place, which was tenanted only by the watchman,, Henry Meyers, he could not get out Podner, who believes in ghosts, had' heard Bizant’s place was haunted, he said, and wanted to find out for himself. When he got into the maze and: in the dim light saw his own figure in. the mirrors he became terror-stricken. The. wind was moaning and Podner’s imagination conjured up evil spirits. To escape from the house he rut every way, but in vain. Twelve times, he says, he went up and down the stairway, hoping to get his bearings, but each time at its foot he met a mirror and would flee in terror.ouiy tobs confronted by another. Podner always had longed to see spooks, but he says the excitement of his one night in the Bizant castle was too much for him. At last he fell asleep and next morning was aroused and arrested.