A BRAVE GIRL.
Two burglars attempted to rob the residence of John K. Connell, at Lowell, Mass., about two o'clock on the morning of Oct. 25. The first person who discovered the robbers was Mamie, the eighteen-year- • old daughter, who heard a peculiar noise in the lower part of the house. She had retired for the night, but she immediately arose, and making her way to her father's smoking-room, took a revolver from the drawer, and proceeded to the room from which the noise came". Here she saw that the burglars had entered the main body of . the house. Upon following them Bhe found a hard-looking specimen of manhood, who . later on proved to be Tobin, a notorious [ Boston crook. He was just rifling the i drawers of Mr Connell's desk, when Mamie entered the room, and shouted, " Either
surrender, or I will sboofc." The ruffian sprang upon the girl, who proved equal to the emergency, and emptied two chambers of the revolver into him, one of the bullets striking him just above the lung, and bringing him to the ground. At this point his accomplice, who was on the watch outside, entered the house to assist his fallen pal ; but the plucky girl covered him with her weapon, and he began begging for mercy. She forced him to sit down until the occupants of the house had been aroused, when he was handed over to the police for Bafe keeping.
A BRAVE GIRL.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 7032, 10 December 1890, Page 1
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