THE BURGLAR AND HIS YACHT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1618, 25 July 1887, Page 3

THE BURGLAR AND HIS YACHT

The Cheshire police have been engaged Investigating the antecedents of a fellow who gives the name of William Atoody, and who waa arrested charged with burglariously entering the premises of Mr Peter Davles, Seacombe. Mrs Davlea taw the man eater her bedroom, and ■creamed out, awakening her husband, who leaped oat of bed and seized the burglar. An investigation revealed that the prisoner had poisoned the watoh dog and secured some valuable property, inclodicg £30 actually taken from Mr Davies a pockets. Be waa furnished with * complete act of honaebreaklng implements. Sow comes the remarkable part of the story. The police, continuing their Investigation , discovered the prisoner was occupying a luxuriantly fitted yacht at anofco ? off Tret rn re. There waa on board an extraordinary collection of valuable property, including dressing cases, jewellery, «ao> articles of virtu, which it is Delivered are proceeds of previous burglarious raids. One curious find waa a South Eastern Railway Company's dividend- for £41, payable to Joseph Beaumont'Stookwell. The prisoner, it appears, bought the yacht from a Cheshire gaatlemin a short time back for a considerable sum of money. Moody is only 25 vein of age, and his record shows f regmkabje career of crime.