Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1916 — POPGUN SAVES THE CREAM [ARTICLE]

POPGUN SAVES THE CREAM

A Kansas Woman Bluffs a Robber of Ice Boxes With Child’s Toy. Kansas City—A child’s popgun recently saved the breakfast cream and butter for Mrs. Frank Eberle and her three children at their home, No. 310 East Thirty-fourth street. Mrs. Eberle was awakened at three o’clock one morning by a noise on the back porch of the Isleta apartments. From the window she saw a man rob the ice box of a neighbor. She went to the front of the apartment to tell the neighbor, who did not hear her call, and when she came back the robber was emptying the ice box at her door. Mrs. Eberle foiind the popgun and went to the window. “Drop those things or get shot,” she / commanded as she “cocked” the popgun. The robber let fall the things and ran. Mrs. Eberle dropped the popgun and screamed. Mrs. Eberle has a real revolver now, sent her by her husband, who Is In Joplin. -