Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1915 — IMAGINED RAT WAS BURGLAR [ARTICLE]

IMAGINED RAT WAS BURGLAR

Girl Bitten by Rodent Thought Her Cheek Punctured by Hypodermic Needle of Night Intruder.

Lafayette, Ind. —Miss Bernice Crowden heard a noise in her bedroom at her home and, thinking it was a burglar, did not move. In a few minutes she felt warm breath on her face and was too badly frightened, either to scream or to move. She thought that she was about to be chloroformed and! a second later, when she felt a sharp sting in her cheek, she was certain! that a hypodermic needle had been! used by a burglar. She screamed fori her brother, who rushed into the room and found Miss Crowden’s cheek) bleeding. The cause of the wound was not! determined until a * physician waai called. He 'declared that the youngj woman had been bitten by a rat A rat, believed to have been the one that bit the young woman, was caught and killed by her brother, Louis CrowdenMiss Crowden is in a serious condition, from the nervous shock.