Burglar's Ruse.
POLICE ARREST A PRIEST.
LOCKED UP FOR FOUR HOURS.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, July 25. A well-known Catholic priest in
Widnes (Lancashire) was on a visit to a friend in London, and arriving late in the evening, a gentleman ushered him into the library because of the priest being engrossed in. books.
Suddenly the police appeared and arrested him, and took him to the nearest station, where he was charged with burglary. After four hours he was released, and apologies were forthcoming. It seems that the house had previously been burgled, and the police seeing the priest enter concluded he was the burglar, while, as a matter of fact, the man 1 who ushered him iinto the library was the burglar who escaped.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 27 July 1914, Page 5
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130Burglar's Ruse. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 27 July 1914, Page 5
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