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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 59, 18 June 1910, Page 9

Ail ingeniously devised 'burglar trap Avas the cause of George Smith being sentenced to three months' hard labor at the Guildhall (London) Police Court recently on a charge of attempted theft at the Manchester Hotel, Aklersgate street. Mr. T. Hanseombe, the manager of the hotel, invented the trap because many robberies had occurred at the hotel recently. "I prepared a number of rooms," he informed an Eixpress representative. "To the door of each a catch releasing an electric bell was fitted. The Mis only sounded in the rooms on the ground floor, so that the burglar lhad no warning that the alarm was given. A numlber of overcoats were hung on the walls, and in the .pockets of these coats fish-hooks were concealed. Nothing happened for three weeks, then early one morning the hells downstairs rang viol"ntlv. The inorters rushed up, and /•„.,.. > /-. r -.-« ■'"jrith io re 1 ""?-' his 4smd from an overcoat.