“CAT BURGLAR.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3747, 28 January 1928, Page 2

“CAT BURGLAR.”

LOOKED IN FOURTH STOREY. Auckland, January 27. A “cat burglar” made a sensational escape from the fourth floor of the Dilworth building, a city structure of eight storeys, on a re • cent evening, at a moment .when it urns thought that he was trapped in the office behind a locked door. There had been several thefts in the building, the occupier of one office losing a cheque for a considerable amount. From that time the occupiers of other offices there bad been on the qni vive.

A few nights ago one business man had occasion to call back at his office on the fourth floor, and as soon as he opened the door he sav T a man fiddling with a bunch of keys, and trying to unlock a drawer in a desk. The business man promptly slammed the door, locked it, and called lor the caretaker. The caretaker was bandy, and the door was then unlocked, but to the great astonishment of the pair, the room was empty. An open window provided a clue and a. hurried glance over the sill revealed a man woi’king bis way dexterously towards the ground by means of a downpipe. It was far too perilous a path for the business man and the caretaker to follow, and when they hurried to the ground floor the burglar had vanished. Those who have viewed the scene of the exploit agree that the man has the merits of a “cat burglar.” He carried his life in his hands as the hand-bold was precarious in the extreme, and noljoby but a man accustomed to dizzy heights could have trusted his grasp to bring him safely down the sheer wall of the building. • "