An Exciting Chase - D. E. Lyon - 1869

LYON

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/14/2016 at 19:15:19

The Herald, Saturday, April 17, 1869

BURGLARY
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Another Visit to the Residence
of D. E. Lyon
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An Exciting Chase
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The readers of the HERALD will recollect that a few months ago a burglar effected an entrance to the residence of D. E. Lyon, on Bluff, near 11th, and succeeded in carrying off considerable plunder. Mr. Lyon has received another call, and a loud one. On Thursday night, about midnight, Mrs. Lyon was awakened by their footsteps of some person in the house. She aroused her husband, and after listening a moment they were convinced that the burglars were approaching their sleeping apartment, which was on the first floor. The door knob was turned steadily and a match struck to enable the burglar to ascertain the position of things. Mr. Lyon usually keeps fire arms prepared for immediate use in his chamber, but having recently moved it from the floor above the weapons had been left behind. He was therefore without any weapon of offense or defense, and could not reach the other room above without encountering the burglar, who was correctly supposed to be well armed. But no time was to be lost, and with the adroitness of a sharp lawyer he played a piece of strategy. As though just awakened by the noise Mr. Lyon called out sharply to his wife for his pistol and sprang for the door. The burglar did not wait upon the order of his going, but went at once through the window on the north side of the house by which he had effected the entrance. Mr. Lyon hastened to open the front door to intercept the fugitive, when he saw two, instead of one, the one who had just dashed through the window, having slipped as he sprang upon the stoop and fallen at full length upon the street. He gathered himself quickly, and firing two shots from a revolver, joined his pal in a flight up Bluff Street. The neighborhood was alarmed by the row, but the rascals succeeded in making good their escape. The tracks in the mud, in the morning, showed that the thieves were of genteel, at least so far as the style of their boots is concerned. The certainty in which they proceeded to the room where Mr. Lyon was sleeping also argues that they understood the arrangements of the household . Mr. Lyons thinks he knows who one of them is – at least he has suspicions. It is not likely a repetition of the visit will find him under the necessity for calling for his revolver, and he hopes to be able to return the compliment of the shooting.