Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1915 — Kansas City Boasts the Most Courteous Burglar [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kansas City Boasts the Most Courteous Burglar

KANSAS CITY.—A disk of white light danced along the floor of Miss Florence Boyle’s bedroom. Finding the bedposts, the light climbed, like a will-o’-the-wisp, and settled quietly on Miss Coyle’s head and shoulders. Miss

Florence rubbed her eyes. Then she sat up in bed and brushed the strands of hair away from her face. "What do you want?” Miss Florence asked, in an even, polite, well modulated tone. Came back, out of the darkness behind the light, an even more polite, soft, courteous voice: ' “Please don’t be disturbed. Just don’t say a word.” “But you’re in my room. Won’t you at least tell me your name?” The

burglar hesitated, and then decided not to. The light flashed off, and a slender form glided out the door. Miss Coyle put on her slippers and awakened her father and mother. Together they searched the house, but the slender, polite, courteous burglar was gone. So was about |SO worth of Miss Coyle’s jewelry, a gold lavalliere, a gold bracelet and several rings, one a small diamond. Miss Coyle is a teacher at the Bancroft school. "If the burglar should rea'd about it," she said,- 4 Td like him to know that if one must be robbed it’s so much nicer to be robbed by a courteous, gentle burglar.” Miss Coyle lives with her father and mother. The house is a large, oldfashioned structure. Tfce burglar entered by prying the lock from the kitchen window. He took all the dishes from the kitchen table and carefully piled them outside in the snow without breaking one. Miss Coyle said the burglar must have been in the house about four hours. He ransacked every bureau, went through the rooms of Mr. and Mrs. Coyle without awakening them, and then closed their door and locked IL