A Burglar Trap
And the Sweet-Looking Set of
Thieves It Caught.
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I WAS only a girl of sixteen when I trapped the burglars and received the five-thousand-dollar reward for doing so.
Our family were in Europe during the fall, and I, in their absence, was head of the house. With me were my elder brother and his wife, two servants and Michael, the hired man, who slept in the barn and managed our country place.
There had been several robberies in our pretty town, mostly in outlying and lonely houses such as ours, and no traces could be had of the thieves in spite of the large rewards offered or of the wise detectives sent from the adjacent city. The burglaries had all been skillfully done, nothing being taken except silver plate and jewels, and in only one case was violence offered.