BURGLAR'S DUG-OUT
' ,The etory of a remarkable series of ,/ burglaries was told in tho Cinque Porta Police Court, Deal, recently, when Private Samuel Harper, an absentee from | the Royal Marines, was placed in the ■ dock. During, the fortnight before the trial a nnmber of articles had been miffed from houses in Kingsdown and Walmer, but the author of tho thefts contrived to evade arrest. By means of a ■ subterranean passage' tho offender hid in the wooded grounds of Walmer Castle. Eventually the police fou.ud a dug-out in which the burglar had made himself very comfortable,' and by the aid of 6tolen cushions constructed a mug bed. Ho had kept himself supplied with food by.] raids on the larders of various houses. When the discovery was mado- a hue and cry followed, and after an exciting chai-o at midnight tho man wne captured. Airong the articles taken were a number i.f Napoleonic relics, inclnding the mednt issued on tho occasion of his death at St. Helena.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 15, 12 October 1917, Page 6
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165BURGLAR'S DUG-OUT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 15, 12 October 1917, Page 6
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