Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — FIRES AT PHANTOM THIEF [ARTICLE]

FIRES AT PHANTOM THIEF

New York State Banker Blows Big Hole In Wall Wherp His Shadow Had Been. Yonkers. —Awakening with a loud scream at 3:30 In the morning Mrs. Benjamin F. Barnes, wife of a Manhattan banker, who lives at 27 Union place, shook her husband from bls slumber and told him there was a burglar in the house. “I felt a hand or something on my face,'* she said. Grabbing a double-, barrelled shotgun, Mr. Barnes rushed into an adjoining roojn and fired both barrels at a moving figure. A big hole was torn in the wall, but the figure was unharmed. It was merely Barnes* shadow formed by the light shining through the wlndpw. The report of the gun aroused the neighborhood, but neighbors and police could find no sign that a burglar had been in the bouse.