A CANDID BURGLAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 58, 26 July 1912, Page 5

A CANDID BURGLAR.

"I'M THIEVING." Bj Telegraph—Presi Awsoeiation. Wanganui, Last Nrght. About two o'clock this afternoon a prisoner named George Albert Wallingford, awaiting trial for a series of thefts from here, escaped from gaol. He had been in the washing-house, and in the momentary absence of the warder disappeared. The police spent an energetic five hours in search, until a telephone message from Mr. S. J. Gordon, manager of the Bank of Australasia, announced that a burglar was in his house. Constable Keenan was promptly on the scene, and found the burglar to be Wallingford. He had got in through a window while the family were at tea. Gordon had occasion' to go into the front portion of the house, and there saw someone moving. Thinking it was his son, he asked "What are you doing here?" and the burglar candidly replied ''l'm thieving?" Arrest was an easy matter, and Wallingford was watched until the police arrived. It then transpired that the house of Bertram Lambert, on the other side of the road, had been entered. Prisoner showed the police where he had hidden the stolen articles in his swag. Altogether they totalled about £llO.