Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1880 — A Lady’s Fight with aBurglar. [ARTICLE]

A Lady’s Fight with aBurglar.

▲tlnnta (Qs.) Poat. On Sunday morning, about 2 o’clock Miss Nina Pickney, daughter of D. J. Plckney, was awakened tty the light being turned out. The young lady is in tne habit of sleeping wltri a light in her room, and lias become so accustomed to the light that when it is tunied out she is instantly awakened. She had heard no .noise, but supposing the light had blown out, she ar«>se to get a match to relight it. As she passed the foot of the bed she ran against a man who was crouching there. He sprang up and attempted to run, but laying hold of him She screamed with all her might. The fellow pulled, but she held him like a vise, and finding ho could not get away he carried her to the window and threw himself from It. She was forced to let go or be dragged out. He sprang clear to the fence and disappeared, while she ran For a revolver which is kept in her room, but he was out of sight when she got back to the window. By this time the rest of tiie family were aroused. It was found that Miss Nina was severely bruised about the shoulders and arms. The catch on the window shutter had been left open, and the prying scoundrel had made his entry by this means. By the light of a street lamp the young lady saw that he was a negro. George Munro, the New York publisher, nas endowed a chair of history, Eolitioal econoiny and rhetoric at Dalousie College. Halifax, N. 8., the incumbent of wnioh will be the Rev. John Forest.