THE BURGLAR UNDER THE BED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1723, 30 November 1887, Page 3

THE BURGLAR UNDER THE BED

A great and lonfs-looked for ovont (aays tho u Pall Mall Gazette" of Sop Umber 15th) has at laat oomo off. On this planet some hundreds of millions of wemon have religiously looked under their bod m search of a hidden man every night of their llvoa slnco they were old enough to have beds of their own. They have looked for him, but hitherto they havo never found him, Arithmetio fails to compute the numbor of beneath-bed lnspeotlons thai ll»7e taken p'aoe since the oustom began, and until last Saturday midnight wltho-it reealt. At last, however, the Bearp.V lv, -a? by juiViiouo k&u be^n or6^ned : with, auobess. THe lodjj; ejpepiod man has been found. He waa a burglar, twenty years ot age, who was discovered lurking under the bed of Mrs Ann Wntson, at 103 St John's Wood terrace, and who is now In gaol awaiting trial. It is a great event, which will redouble the dlllgenoo of female Inspection all over thj world.

Mary Ann Wataon, who tpld her story at the Mfirylebono Police Court, behaved with unnsaal Intrepidity j— rShe was about to get ioto bed when something prompted her to look under the bed, and she found the prisoner oonoealed there. The Immediately oanght hold of him and dragged him out. Shu held the prisoner for some time wHIo her servant called out of the window for the police. Fearing that thaccuse^ might do her «- M £ ..- a threatening attitude, witness released her bold, and he went downstairs, where he was ultimately found and i banded over to the police. After the acoDsed was looked up witnoas found m the passage of her house a jemmy, a bunch of keys, and other housebreaking Impbfeenti, which she bsuded ove? to the