Even Burglars are Rushed.

Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 27

Even Burglars are Rushed.

' Why,' he replied to a cop, ' I never saw so much push and rush in Detroit since the war, and I presume it is so all over the country. Thlß boom even extends to my profession, whioh you are aware is that of burglary. I haven't been so rushed in ten years. I have advertised in a dozen papers for a " pal," but can't get one at any price. Third-class men, only fit to put up ladders, hold lighted candles, pound with a sledge, and swear an alibi, are getting their own prices this year. The two I had struok for seven dollars a day apiece, and I had to pay it or let my business go to ruin. You have no idea of the number of chanoes we have had for " jobs " this year, and the season is promising all that any burglar oould ask for I am so pushed that £ hardly know which way to turn first.' ' Anything very big on hand ? ' ' Oh, a dozen of 'em. I ought to go up Woodward Avenue to-night, and rob a house where two baok windows have been left up

for a whole week, but I may not get around to it because one of my pals is dead drunk in his room upstairs. Then there's a splendid show down Fortstreet. Two of the back doors won't lock, some of the chamber windows are unfastened, and there's half a oord of silver-ware piled up in one room. Duty tells me that I ought to take it in right away, but something may prevent Dear me, but I wish I oould hire at least three first-olass burglars for the next six weeks. I've got a special lay for them.'

'Anything startling?'

' Well, no. There's a bank in Toledo we could get at very handy, a jeweller over in Chicago who aches to be robbed, and I know of a farmer ont here a few miles who has $3000 in gold in the house. If I had two good men 1 could gather in least $50,000 within the next ten days, but this boom has taken me all aback. I need two full sets of burglar tools right off, but my blacksmith is rushed with other work and must delay me. I went yesterday to see about wigs and wbißkers, but found a dozen others ahead of me.'

' It's unfortunate.'

' Well, I should say so ! It just makes my heart ache to know that scores of back doors are unlocked, hundreds of windows left open, heaps of silver and jewellery left kicking around, and here I am so fixed that I can't half push buslaess. I'm nervous and uneasy, but I can't mend matters as I see. If you happen to come across a first class hall thief and a pair of professional cracksmen, I wish you'd Bend 'em to me. I'll guarantee the very highest wageß and steady employment for the season.