Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1920 — HELPED BURGLAR TO ESCAPE [ARTICLE]

HELPED BURGLAR TO ESCAPE

Four-Year-Old Miss Is Regretting That She Was So Polite to Her Viaitor. Burglars always have been the pet aversion of Margaret Bearsley of Omaha, eight years of age. She admits she is just scared to death of a burglar. When it Was too hot to play Margaret slipped into her nightie and crept up on the lounge in the guest room to rest. Looking up from the wallpaper sample book with which she was amusing herself Margaret beheld a “man standing" by thei dresser. He wore a workman’s black cap and carried some electric-light cords. “Oh,” he said pleasantly, “I’m the electric-light man. I’ve come to inspect the lights and I got sort of mixed up In the rooms.” “I’ll show you the way,” volunteered Margaret, and she Jumped up, slipped on a tiny kimono and escorted the electric-light man all through the upstairs. Now the police are looking for the man with a black cap and two electric light cords and Margaret’s family call her “the burglar’s pal.”