HUMOROUS BURGLAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2180, 23 September 1920, Page 4

HUMOROUS BURGLAR.

MEAL IN SLEEPING WOMAN’S

BEDROOM,

A burglar with a liking for Scott and a sense of humour, made himself thoroughly at home when he visited the house at Orpington, Kent,’ occupied by Mrs Moon.

‘‘tie entered the nursery window from a ladder he had borrowed from a yard nearby.’' Mrs Moon said, and while 1 and my companion were asleep lie opened a tin of pilchards and with ham and a Mb. of butter, made his own sandwiches. He drank an egg mixed with milk, and nearly a whole bottle of lime-juice, and seems to have picked a volume of Scott out of a pile of books. “Then he ransacked the house, but, apart from money, all he took away was a set of boot-brushes and a tin of polish. “He stole over £3 from my purse and put me back a farthing,’’ continued Airs Moon. .After stealing some silver" from my companion’s purse, he replaced a halfpenny. Then he took a burglary insurance policy from a deed-box and it conspicuously on the table. “He took a second meal of fruit and cakes in my companion’s bedroom while she slept. His last act was to go to the bathroom, where he performed a complete toilet. He cleaned his teeth with my brush. ■\Vheu my companion's alarm clock

went off at 0, ami she woke and saw a sandwich near the clock, she rushed out and found the man near the bathroom door. She asked him if he had taken anything, and he replied, ‘Nothing.’ Then she asked him to eleqT out. Full of assurance, he went down the stairs and walked quietly away.”