A GIRL BURGLAR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 263, 1 June 1880, Page 2

A GIRL BURGLAR.

Rapa. 4 aged eigb the Police 'Ckuipt, NV-^W. withhbuiglanQt%y the . residcnc^'tpT"' ARyandsay, In "*'* I Patrick 18th March, ahd stolen”tii ereffqrn 4 aiglags--butter-cooler containg Ll”‘3s ■property -<df; Margret Lindsay. evidence of Alexander Lindsay waA'to '>«| the effect that, shortly after midnigh’tj' , j he was aroused from bis, sleep by a dog., ¥ 4 barking, and, listening, Heard a noise, as of someone moving and the clinking,, of money, in an room. He immediately jumped up, and running with a light to the spot, he found the prisoner inside his house, standing in a corner of the room. She was only partially dressed, and had a petticoat r thrown over her head, one part of which iVs was tucked under her arm, and to contain something. H* seized-prisoner and demanded to kmw what brought - her there, and what she had under her arm. She al first said nothing, but'"''ll finally produced the butter-cooler and fcash which had been taken off a safe ' where it had been kept, handy for change f by Mrs Lindsay. She then fell, Giw-hfti_<_--knees and begged hard t > be let off, but w s given into custody Mil brought to the lock-up. On the way thither she put her arms around witness and again asked for forgivem ss, but he refused to let her off, as she had been for a long time frequenting the company of had characters. She lived with her brother-in-law, David Salt about a'hundred yards distant, and on going back he tracked her footprints all along from the house in the sand. Entrance had been effected 'through a window, which had’ fbeen prized open and supported with a broken shingle (produced). Prisoner who hid her face in her hands, and ap-> pearod to feel her pcsition, was then remanded. The girl broke out (if the prison in which she was confined on the following night. Her escape seems to have been effected by wrenching one of the iron handles from the cell'nightbacket, with which she deliberately proceeded to wrench open the iron sides of, large padlock that fastened the door of the compartment in which she was confined, all noise being lulled by her placing her dress between the padlock and the cell bars. Constable Oxley, the lock-up-keeper, had kept a careful watch on his prisoner, owing to ns Having heard several noises from her cell shortly b fore and had twice visited her to see what was amiss. Taking advantage of her temporary absence she must have given the lock a final wrench, and quietly opening the cell passed out, and thence gained the open street unobserved. She was recaptured on March 21. -