PERSISTENT BURGLARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 9

PERSISTENT BURGLARS

NOT DETERRED BY GIRLS’ SCREAMS Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. An impudent and daring attempt was made by two men in the early houfs of this morning to enter a Cashmere residence. Presumably they had expected to find the house empty, as the owners were absent on holiday, but when they were surprised by two young women in the house they persisted in their efforts to force an entrance until the girls’ screams drew the attention of the Hon. R. Moore, M.L.C., who resides nearby. Awakened by sounds outside the room in which they were sleeping the girls were startled to see the figure of a man silhouetted on panes of glass in a window in a door leading from the balcony. Both girls screamed, and one of them at once rang up the police. * Hearing the telephone bell the man on the balcony renewed his efforts to force the door, but without success. In the meantime he was joined by a confederate, who had been trying to open the back door of the house. The men then endeavoured to prize open a fanlight over the .window in another bedroom, paying no attention to the screams of the girls. The men failed in this, and went to the back of the house.

The girls decided to make a dash for the house next door. They had reached the street when Mr. Moore arrived, and he was in time to see the men clambering over a fence into an empty section.

The police arrived soon afterwards. They searched the neighbourhood, but the men had disappeared. /