Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1915 — IRONING BOARD ROUTS THIEF [ARTICLE]

IRONING BOARD ROUTS THIEF

Intruder .Makes Hasty Exit When Laundress Uses the Weapon. Greenwich, Conn. —With an ironing board as her weapon. Miss Louise Lehman, a laundress in the home of George L. Storm, fought a burglar and forced him to climb out of a window and drop 30 feet to the ground. Miss Lehman heard a noise in Mrs. Storm’s room, and, looking through the keyhole, ‘saw a man inspecting diamond rings and other articles of jewelry* in a bureau drawer. “What are you doing there?" said Miss Lehman, entering the room. “Leave this house at once.’ 7 After the laundress had struck him several times in the face with the board he left.