A BURGLAR CAPTURED BY A LADY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1518, 28 March 1887, Page 3

A BURGLAR CAPTURED BY A LADY.

At the Col Png wood Police Court n few day* as;o, Fr.nk Williams, supposed to ba an experienced Sy.iuoy' burglar, wan charged wiih burjary and p.tealiny. Mr» ThVon^rigond, » wir'.ow Udy most ftp 1 y n<mfd, bet.wsov "0 \n^ 50y*'»re old, while fnb | bo tio'ilocko Tuesday trornini,'. •i. her reidbuoi , zo Hood street, thougbt sho hoard a noise m her bed-room and called out, but, as ail was silent, she attcthiutid th« nciiso to the wind, and tried tr> sleep again. Onca more slit* heard a fairt so .nd, mv) thenshe saw the figure of a mau at her dreialng table. She cot up went towards him, when he ran t. rough a sitting-room into the dining-romi, and then but out of the window of the latter. To cut off h-B retreat, she ran rouud by a piußaLe, and caught the m»Q outside the •viudow. Sho oiugh^. him by the collar, and he threw her down, kickiui her. 8h« canght hold of his coat t»ll», however, and heldon,aareamlng "thieves" and "inurdor " Au ehti thus held on he dragged her along % dieUnoo of six y«rd«, injuring her back, but she still clung to him. A neighbour named D'Arcy hearing the noise looked over 'he dividing fence, nnd o Ailed to her to "ha.)g on an > In would be round;' 1 but before he got round Mrs Thoroughgood's «o?i hud be«r» and grappled with the burglar, who had jewellery, laoo v etc , vitluuu at £0, iv his puctcetß. tie had also p^oked up a stock of groceries ready foremoval. Thi burglar had first obt lined entrance into a detached kitchen, whor« he foind a ßorewd:iv<sr, aid with it forced up :ho lower pash of the dining-room window. A aorew nail had been inserted through 'oth eashre, but tho pressure had burst the ecrew through the wood-work of the upper sash , T he prisoner, who hid all the witnesses ordered out of Court, at first tried to prjve an alibi, but ho abandoned this defence, and was committed for tral.