Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1875 — A Colorado Heroine. [ARTICLE]

A Colorado Heroine.

A Denver lady—who is a lady—was the other night compelled to do a very unladylike thing. There was an invalid gentleman sleeping in one part of the house, and her chamber was in another quarter, and these two were the sole occupants of the premises that night. She heard somebody trying to get into her room through one of the windows, and wanting to catch them at it did not scream and faint away. She had no doubt it was a robber, and she could not call to the invalid without frightening her game. Besides, she thought a sick man would be of no use in such an extremity. The lady went to a dresser in her room ’ and got a long, sharp, butcher-knife that happened to be there, and went to the window and waited. At length the intruder was about to step into the room, and she attacked him with drawn knife, daringly disputing his entrance. She slashed "right and left at him on the window-sill, while he called to his confederate beneath the window. At length she gave him a deep one in the chest and he fell back and to the ground. The confederate dragged his friend off into the darkness, and the lady returned to her slumbers and was disturbed no more that night. Iwthe morning it was found that the intruder had bled like a stuck pig, both on the window and in the yard below, and it was hoped some Denver doctor would report a man with a bad wound in his chest, but no one had done so at last accounts. The people had a special interest in it, because it has been a long time since the police have been able to arrest a burglar and the town is full of them. There is hardly another woman in the world who would have done what the brave Denver lady did, and therefore her act is unladylike and she is called “ a Colorado heroine.”— St. Louis Republican.