GIRL AND BURGLAR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1090, 31 March 1911, Page 5

GIRL AND BURGLAR.

. 4 . MIDNIGHT DEMAND FOR MONEY AT PISTOL'S POINT, Alfred Tennant was charged at Brentford (England) Police Court on February 11 with feloniously breaking into Elgin House. IslcworUi, with demanding money with menaces from Mr. P. Saihsbury, and with attempting to shoot Detective-Inspec-tor Helden and Constable Mortimer, and, further, with 'burblary at'the Manse, Maiden Road, New Maiden. In the last charge Miss Gwendolen Stephens, a.young woman who resides with her parents at the Manse, said that after midnight on January 22 the prisoner camo to the bed where she and her cousin wore Sleeping, and, placing one hand over her cousin's mouth, pointed a pistol at the witness and threatened to shoot her if she raised an alarm. He told her he must have some money. ' He- kept the pistol pointed at her, the witness continued, antf made her walk to her mother's room. On the landing outside the room door, she asked the prisoner to go away, but ho still kept the pistol pointed at her head, and she said, "I swear before God' I will get tho money if you will go." The prisoner said, "Who is God?" and she answered, "I'll swear before you then." She then went to her mother's bedroom and obtained some money, the prisoner remaining 011 the landing. . While in the room she crept silently to her mother's bedside and whispered to her that there was a burglar in the house. She v;eut on the landing again, and by this lime her father, who was ait invalid, was aroused, aim he caused a polico whistlo to be blown. On hearing this the prisoner ran away. The magistrate complimented Miss Stephens on her courageous behaviour, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions on all tho charges.