CONFESSION OF A BURGLAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 July 1907, Page 4

CONFESSION OF A BURGLAR.

I'LACK.S AT WHICH Hi: "CALLED." -Mclliuiirue, July d. Adam I'. luglot, an Austrian seaman, ivlw was to-day sentenced to two months' imprisonment for breaking into a diamond drill store at Joliinont, and two business places iu the city, lias admitted six other burglaries, all of recent, date, lie said he had cut wires in sevtral places, and added that he "always liarl a dread of seeing wires and Mis about wlk-ii lie went into a place, ami generally cut them. Inglot said he was not unite certain lirnv many places lie had roblied during his brief sojourn here, nor was he quite sure what premises they were. "You See/" he said, "[ am quite a stranger here, aud besides, it was always night when I called."' He was quite sure about some of the places at which he '"called." One of them was the factory of T I. Connelly and Son. in City road. 11 went on to describe how he went round to the back, forced the door with a lump of iron, walked through the factory, forced open the doors of the ollices. found the safe, and carried it out lrnlilv to the factory. Here he got to work on it with tiles and other tools, smashed the attachments otf the front of the door and broke the lock. Whilst he was at \vi»rk he heard tie- watchman iOinin-/. He had left his bouts JU-1 inside the back door. ami the fact gave him some uneasiness, but he jumped for a hidiii',' place and. hiuiM l )? unseen. watched the night watchman pick up his boots and tO" them into the -atvdust bin. and then walk through the factory into the office. Here the watchman made a brief inspee•ion. and then left the building by the front door so quickly that he (Inglot i thought he was in a hurrv. "So soon as he had gone f come out and get mv l*K)ts and f i'o away, too." remarked the Autrian.