LONDON BURGLARIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 50, 28 January 1884, Page 2

LONDON BURGLARIES.

This is how burglaries are got tip m London : — A series of burglaries having v been investigated, it lias been found that m each case one of the servants m the house at the time hud received " a from -what purported to be ' 'Ther last place.'!-: This "pNe" was ■, ; always the s^me-^it was the house of a * lady and gentleman' 'wild 'apparently , lived m good~sfcyle at the West End, ( and wh r 6s6 names 1 were m the Post. Office ,Tho establishment maintained solely.; for the purpose^ef : planting (an.;, ( accompl ice m l lively • < houses. This accomplice, — sometime* a sham footman, " sometimes 'a, iham.' housemaid — discovered thte 1 secrets -of' the establishment, found'Otrt the places where the '• plfite and je* ; ellery ; were kept, studied the habits <bf the family, and then gave notice and left. It was by this means , the burglars were enabled to 'suit the best time for n raid, and go straight to the spot %here their-boocy was kept. 'In sonle M cases the accomplice was actually' a member of the household at the time, of the robbery, and, made all necessary arrangements— such as leaviug tthe windows unfastened, giving a signal, and keeping the other servants out of the way. The whole plot is said to have been canned out with remarkable j skill, and ingenuity, and further details are anxiously awaited.