Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — A Brave Girl. [ARTICLE]

A Brave Girl.

A desperate struggle, which makes of Miss Carrie Roberts a heroine, took place at the residence of G. H. Kitchen, a farmer, living one mile this side of Monroe, this county, at an early hour this morning. Mr. Kitchen is a well-to-do fanner, having no family but his wife, and the girl, Carrie Roberts, is employed as a domestic in his household. ’ This morning Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen went to Hamilton to attend to some business matter, leaving the house hi charge of the girl Roberts. Home hired men were working in the fields some distance away from the house, but the gjrl was the only person at home. When Mr. Kitchen and his wife had been some time gone, and the girl was engaged in attending to some duties up stairs, she thought she heat d a noise in a room below, and. coming to the top of the stairway ana looking down, she perceived a strange, ill-look-ing man, of the genus tramp, engaged in ransacking a bureau drawer in the sitting room. The girl knew that there was a large amount of money Stowed away in a tin box, which box was concealed in this bureau. Besides the money, there was also, a lot of jewelry, belonging to the family, in the same place. The brave girl’s resolve Was instantly taken, ana while the robber was engaged in transfering the valuables from the box to his pockets, he was astonished by the child suddenly springing upon him like a tigress, fastening her hands in his hair, and endeavoring to wrench the box from his clutches. For a moment he was almost dumbfounded, but he finally recovered himself, and began to try and release himself from the girl’s hold. But this he was unable to do, although he dragged the game and plucky maiden through a hall-way jnto the dining-room. Still she held on to him. lien gi ng so closely tnat he was unable to strike her and push her as he would to release himself. With remarkable coolness and presence of mind, when this strange pair had reached the din-ing-room, the girl remembered that there was a.revolver on the top of the •clock. For a moment she let go her hold upon the tramp, and, getting upon a chair, she succeeded in finding the weapon, and commenced blazing away without ceremony. The first shot caught the robber in the hand, and he dropped the treasure that he still held. He then commenced to beat a retreat, the girl still firing at him. Finally he got Into the yard, scaled the garden fence, and got away. From the din-ing-room to the fence where he climbed into the road, he left bloody marks, showing that he was pretty badly wounded. Carrie, after the departure of the villian, did not swoon, but gathered up the mqney and jewelry, and then, going into the yard, rang the dinner bell. Presently the farm laborers came in, and learning how affairs stood, they started in pursuit of the thief. Up to this writing no clue to his identity has been discovered. Mr. Kitchen retured from Hamilton, and was in Lebanon this afternoon. Your reporter conversed with him, and was shown a long letter written by Miss Carrie to her brother, nee dinner time, describing minutely the whole affair. This young lady would have made a good Amazonian warrior. No effort will be spared to bring the daring rascal, who had perpetrated this outrage, to even severer justice than he has already received.—[Lebanon (Ohio) Special to Cincinnati Commercial.