Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 75

193°. AUGUST 23, .., WASHINGTON, AY SUND THE STAR, _ FELLON WELL MET! By Weare Holbrook at Now that “conference” and the milkman arriving With Junior coming home Papa returning from a 2, the girls and their beaus returning from night clubs at 3 or 4 system, with many happy returns of the night, he must work fast—if at ail. from the second show at the Bijou shortly be- fore 12, Mama returning from a bridge party the family home-comings are oh the stagger at 5—what chance has a felon got? centipede now. at 1, It The old-fash- ness methods to crime, housebreaking joned burglar with his rakish cap, has lost favor in the underworld. isn't worth the trouble. black mask and bull's-eye lantern is INCE racketeers have applled big busi- S almost a legendary figure. Yet the average for nine-tenths of the unaccountable noises that householder continues to believe in him as a child believes in Santa Claus. He is blamed are heard between the hours of 1 and 5 am. ™y One entered the Lefiingweil residence on Georgonzola avenue and knickers, six butter Yet in spite of small profits and the increas- cigars. ing competition of the machine gun age, ther: We have had two in East Teabone this Sum- are still a few burglars of the old school left mer. is a Beside the modern robber barons with their bodyguards, their legal ad- portable arsenals, h But as a criminal he is more picturesque than practical. vigsers and their mere amat i x mmu said porch .Mwmm*,m iy _:.:_..zzm pi _w*_w:i R u_u mw TiEE st mfimm mmmmmm um_._wm i B} mu-u -_~N_~m wn : ,_mmmmu“_ _fluu ik m.. w u . ,Mmm m :_ .w.,: Drawn for The Star's Sunday Magasine by Stuart Hay. is almost a legendary figure.” to protect life burglar of loneliness that we organized the East Teabone Vigilantes Iast month. The mem vacationing hus- deprived “The R , 4 u,fl.w u,,mm _mfla_mm“w.mw_ m m_ mwm__w_ HHHIET wm il m,u m_hmqmu wm I mMm“fl_wM, -unfl mwm leeling bership is made up of non- h-ndn.vhom this 1 stole a pair of golf spreaders and a box of gift Mr. Leffingwell hoped to locate the m_ :.._m_ “a_“__ clerks in the local drug stores to watch for a suspicious lopking character purchasing head- ache powders; but nothing came of it. 'l‘he other burglar—or perhaps it criminal through the cigars, and asked all the ke ars mmmm mnflfln m..“ wwm m mfiwnh u—mm _‘,-y.m mMm His methods He has no henchmen; *h, w_xmm* el cur. wtnoolbctfinduflymmh All wall -ullal M .wwmmm_“m _u~ a.wu~. Or, worse yet, he may get inside and find toil for hcurs over a stubborn window, only to feel the heavy hand of the law on his shoulder @8 he starts to climb over the sill. primitive and his plunder uncertain. He may hasn't even a hen i ,“,ummmumum m 2giy b a §a04 _5._ m L [y, Tt wede e gHent Continued on Eighteenth Pege “The tyltalltlh 5 oS