ACROBAT-BURGLAR.
PARIS, Dec. 10. Gaston Verdun, a professional acrobat, and a burglar in his leisure, led police a breakneck chase yesterday lor two and a half hours over roofs and round chimney-stacks. Detected entering an attic window, he turned on the R iH and laughed at the policemen coming to arrest him. When the latter climbed out on to the roof, Verdun did an overhack somersault on to the window-sill below, and then, lightfooted as a eat, he leaped to a roof 30ft below.„ At last, Verdun, tired and out of breath, walked into a policeman’s grins.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1921, Page 1
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97ACROBAT-BURGLAR. Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1921, Page 1
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