A BURGLAR IN A BOX.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 26 March 1891, Page 4

A BURGLAR IN A BOX.

[ At five o'clock one evening a large box was hauled and delivered by a drayman at a railway station. He delivered at the same time an illegibly wriCttaQfetis:. CTh/ljbox ' ? «.d the following asfdressf ifcarkid 'fcig it : "B. A. Smith, Sheffield." It was rolled i into the office and left unnoticed. At 11.49. I just as thi» eight's business was being closed up, the porter went to the s box to get his coat. In lifting it he found that one end had gone into and was caught in the box. Surprised, he gave the coat a jerk and a board flew off the box and revealed thg.foot and leg of alive man*. ,vgbe B§Ss_li4H^ the acting nignt clerk, ; wfio cwnie vStn »r ; pistol and ordered the man in the box to i remain inside. Notice was sent to-, the. ' police station, when a policeman' came anß took the fellow from the box. He had in^ his possession a jug of water and a bag?', i One large board was held at one end by a ' leather strap that was arranged so that it could be hooked inside. At the police . station he gave his name as Bryan Smith. 1 The plan was to rob the office after the night force had lett. In his anxiety to se« (what the clerk was doing he opened the box and rolled out. and as the porter came he suddenly drew the board shut and caught the tail of ihe coat. If he had not blundered, •the oMce would have been robbed by him and his companions whom he would have I let in.