A FEMALE BURGLAR.
P*B PKKSB ABMGJATION, Received 6,1.12 a.m.
Miuooun, February 5. A fashionably-dressed woman named Kate Porter has been committed for trial on a charge of house-breaking. There is also a second charge of stealing frojg dwellings. The arrest was the outcome of numerous robberies in the suburbs. In several instances when robberies were discovered and the premises surrounded there were displayed drawers of hastily collected valuables, and the woman innocently explained the was under the impression she was in the house of a friend, upon whem she was playing a practical joke by pretending to fee a burglar, and showed distress. She profusely apologised on being informed of her mistake in supposing it was h«r friend's house, and she wis allowed to depirt.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 32, 6 February 1903, Page 3
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125A FEMALE BURGLAR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 32, 6 February 1903, Page 3
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