A general panic has taken possession of householders in the suburbs of London, owing to several recent desperate burglaries having been committed, accompanied with great violence to the inhabitants. No one feels quite safe, and the pistol-shops have been doing a roaring trade. The Home News adocates the introduction of the Yankee method of dealing with burg lars. By this system every house, on application, can be connected telegraphically with the nearest police station. On the slightest alarm,'instead of confronting a housebreaker in one’s night dress, it is only necessary to press the telegraph-button by one’s side, and ring up help. Burglars would soon give it up as a bad job with such a preventive system.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 972, 15 December 1882, Page 3
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116Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 972, 15 December 1882, Page 3
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