PLUCKY CONDUCT OF A GIRL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 982, 25 July 1882, Page 3

PLUCKY CONDUCT OF A GIRL.

Through; the courage of a young lady, a daring act of housebreaking in the East End, Glasgow, was frustrated on Saturday morning, April Ist, and the thief apprehended. The affair took place in the house of Mr Galtatly, 504, Ga'lowgate. Mrs Gallatley was away from home waiting on a sick friend, and Mr Gallatly went to his work at six o'clock, leaving the house in charge of a relative of his own. About twenty minutes past, six the young lady heard the front door open and some person enter. She at once rose out of bed, and, though ' undressed, ran into the lobbj', when she observed a man in the parlor. She asked the intruder what he was doing there, when he replied that it was all right. This did not satisfy Iter, and when she made an effort to enter the room the man endeavored to pass out, but she seized him and refused to allow him to leave. A struggle ensued, and, being the stronger of the two, the young fellow managed to get to the stairhead, she hold ing ' on to him. Her cries for' help aroused the neighbors, who speedily came to her assistance, and had the fellow safely secured and handed over to the police, who conveyed him to the Eastern police office. When taken there he gave his name as George Bilsberry, aged 22 ; and on being searched a gold watch was found in his possession and an umbrella, which was picked up on the stair where the struggle took place was also supposed to belong to him. The case was entrusted to Detective Booth, who discovered that about ten minutes before Gallatly's house was entered another house about a hun» dred yards off had been broken into and the watch and umbrella taken from it. Bilberry was a returned convict; and has been twice tried before the Glasgow Circuit Court for similar offences.