BURGLARY UNDER ARMS.
The “ Southern Argus ” (Goulburn) reports that recently a man entered the house of Mr James M‘Govern, in Clinton-Btreet. In one of the rooms at the rear of the premises three of Mr M’Govern's little boys sleep, a young man, nephew of Mr M’Govern, also occupying a bed in it.. At about 3 o'clock in the morning the lads were awoke by hearing a noise in the room, and they then called out to their cousin. The thief, who was in the room at the time, groping under the bed of the young man, made a move to raise himself, and in getting up placed his hud on the breast of tbe occupant of the bed, who was thus aroused. Immediately the former cleared through the window, and the latter reached for a fowling-piece that lay close by. Proceeding to the window, be was about to discharge it, when two shots were fired, which entered the room, and passing over the bed that tbe boys occupied riddled a coat lying on a crossbeam in the room, ana thbnce entered the ceiling.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1271, 9 February 1883, Page 2
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183BURGLARY UNDER ARMS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1271, 9 February 1883, Page 2
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