ROBBING THE BABY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 722, 22 January 1910, Page 11

ROBBING THE BABY.

■; .Though; people".,are,'.being-;:>-continually warned■ bitier .by, .the- police".or-.:through, the papers of-.the ;daijger ; of.leaving -their front ;dpbr.-open:.whileHhe .^household ■■} is .busy; at 'the .rear, of. the .house,-daylight , robberies;.which .;femainAuitraced; ; . are constantly/ being reported Ho-..the -police in'.the'"Australasian")..-. A curious..affair -has. happened- to a ;young married couple, -who .were iit-thehabitof putting: their'offspring,'-a,baby: a'- few, months old;Mo- deep -on' the shady, side of the.;Tefandah,,--while ; -the .mother.bus-' . ied; herself with' dom'esfio v duties : at ■, ; the .back-;' doors.and x windows-,oj>en, to .'carry the sound of: his "awakening 1 ory." ".: Last ■week the mother, > when .'taking' her'. usual "peep" , to''see'if baby, was all-right, was alarmed -to , ,find 1 the.■'perambulator \(a brand new. one) : missing, from' its' usual corner.' An anxious search discovered! the baby, divested 'of ; its upper. ,' garments, tucked under, the blanteb'of ■':. the;front bedroom,. while several .articles pf'valuo in the room were' also missing. - a hasty undiesing'.would;convince the mother that the. identity had not. been tampered with, but' only her "precious clothes"', had- been roquisitibned by,the thief. ,' ■'.' ■. •,' . ' Irate Parent—"Am. ; I '.to ..understand there -is. some idiotic, -affair. between ■■ you and:.that, impecunious 'young .ass," ijord Bilarisf" Tair Daughter (sweetly)—" Only you, papa! , ' - .-, ' . -. ■.-''. •"' ■ .'