A PLAUSIBLE BURGLAR
WOMEN BADLY DECEIIMI| Quick wits and a plausible tongue enabled a burglar at Portsmouth to got away in broad daylight recently after rifling a jeweller’s shop in the* Commercial Road. A man was noticed on the roof of I her-shop, carrying a portmanteau, by some women who were in a yard close by. They asked him what he was doing there . He replied that he had been sent to mend the roof,
4rvi-tr-fimVhTg- ft In-very bad'repair "lie would have to go back to his shop for further tools. Te asked if they could oblige him by erecting a ladder; so that he could get down. This ihe Atomen did, and the man climbed down it wih his bag and promptly disappeared.
A little later the owner of the shop arrived, and on entering be found that the place had been thoroughly ransacked by someone who had entered by making a hole through the roof and then through the intervening floos and ceilings above the shop. About £IOOO worth of jewellery was missing, and was presumably taken away in the burglar’s supposed tool bag.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 601, 21 January 1921, Page 2
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186A PLAUSIBLE BURGLAR Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 601, 21 January 1921, Page 2
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