IMPUDENT BURGLAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 6

IMPUDENT BURGLAR

OCCUPIED ROOM ENTERED UNDETERRED BY SCREAMS PA. WELLINGTON, Dec. 4. In spite of the screams of a dental nurse occupying a ground floor room in Braemar flats, The Terrace, Wellington on Tuesday night a burglar made entry to the room and while the nurse ran for help to an upstairs flat made oil with a purse. The dental nurse shares a flat with two other girls, and on Tuesday night she was home alone and retired to bed early. About 10 p.m., when she was almost asleep, she was aroused by the flapping of a window blind. Looking toward the window she saw that the cause of the flapping was a man’s hand and arm groping down from the fanlight for the catch of the casement window. She cried out, but the intruder persisted in his attempt to get the window open. She cried out again, but the man opened the window and climbed into the room.

By this time the nurse was screaming for help. She rushed out of the room and ran to an upstairs flat for assistance, but by the time a man living there had reached the ground floor the intruder had gone, taking with him the nurse’s purse. The purse *was recovered by the wharf - police on Wednesday morning' floating in the harbour. Only the money was missing, other articles, including a cigarette case and two fountain pens, were untouched. • The occupants of the flat had a scare on a previous occasion. Some months ago, when one of the girls answered a knock at the door, a foot was placed inside. The girl slammed the door, and the would-be intruder made off. Now the girls feel safer. Since Tuesday’s experience, with the help of firends, they have placed wire netting over the vulnerable windows.'