Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1915 — Burglar Is Cruelly Beaten by an Athletic Girl [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Burglar Is Cruelly Beaten by an Athletic Girl

LOS ANGELES, CAL.—-When she was a student in Los Angeles high school Miss Gladys Campbell of Maple avenue, could lift a 60-pound weight; many of her boy friends have gone down to defeat at the hands of the nine-

teen-ye Sr-old girl when engaged in a friendly boxing bout If all of this had been taken into consideration by Joseph Hamlin, burglar, before he attempted to enter, Miss Campbell’s room, he would not be In the city Jail waiting for the swelling to leave his eyes so that he might view his surroundings. He did not know, however, just where he was going, and climbed over the transom of the room in which the young lady was sleeping. Things started to hap-

f pen with the awakening of Miss Campbell. An alarm clock thrown with unerring aim hit Hamlin on the side of the head; before he could recover 1 from the shock a silver hairbrunh closed one eye, while Miss Campbell’s fist accomplished the same purpose for the remaining optic. The handle of a tennis racket fractured a rib, a*d the business end of a dumb-bell served to send the intruder to the land of dreams until the arrival of the police. Ip order to make sure of a good job, the young lady took the sheets from her bed and bound the man and threw him out of the door to the front yard. Here he was found by the police. In the city Jail Hamlin through his swollen lips has made a vow never to burgle again.