A BURGLAR IN KHAKI.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 4 October 1915, Page 7

A BURGLAR IN KHAKI.

"Guilty/'answered Thomas Saunders, thirty, labourer, when asked to plead at the Middlesex Sessions in answer to a charge of burglary at the house of Frederick Thomas rPriddle, in Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill. Mr Purcell, prosecuting, said this case was a sequel to one wlhdch was taken in the other court at the last session, when a man named Usher was sent to penal servitude for breaking into the same house. On May 23 Miss Priddle, who lived with her father, went out in the evening, leaving the house unattended. Sine cam e back about 9.15, noticed lights in the windows, and saw the figures' of two men. She communicated with neighbours, and thejy came to her asr sistance, and by their efforts one man was captured. Trapped at tlhe front.the men tried to escape by the back. Saunders was i n khaki, and said to Mr Saville, "There are burglars', I think. We have got one and we are after the other." Mr Saville was probably impressed by the khaki and let him go through his Ihouse. He wailked up the road W|ith Mr Saville, till he thought he had walked far enough,

when he commenced to run. He did not impress one man as not being the thief. This gentleman struck him with a pole, whereupon Saunders said: "I am not a burglar; I am going after one." He then escaped, but was arrested on July 13, when he said: "All ir'ght, but I am innocent of it," Subsequently he pleaded guilty. He altered his plea after Usfaer, the convict, had entered the witness-box, and said that Saunders was with him and was dressed in soldier's clothes at the time. Accused was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour.