Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — HURLS BURGLAR DOWN STAIRS [ARTICLE]

HURLS BURGLAR DOWN STAIRS

South Bend Justice Is Lively in Spite of His Years. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 6 —Stepping on a burglar crouching in his bedroom. Justice J. N* Calvert, aged sixtv-five. engaged in a hand-to-hard fight with him and finally threw the burglar headlong downstairs. The burglar then escaped by iumping through a window Mr. Calvert was awakened during the night by a noise in the house, but found no one. His wife then suggested that he look under the bed. As he turned to do so, he stepped on the n.an’s foot, which protruded from under the bed. After throwing the intruder downstairs, C&lvert dressed and started in pursuit, but the bur glar escaped.