BURGLAR AT MARTON.
HOTELS ENTERED. BY THLEarwAI'U —PRESS ASSOCIATION. MARTON, >!ay 15. There was a burglar at Marton last night. He is evidently an expert thief, who id making a tour down the coa3t At the White Hart Hotel two boarders' rooms were entered and the pockets of the inmates carefully gone ttirough, all the money being abstracted. A room occupied by the proprietor's son was also visited, and the money in his pockets stolen. The Club Hotel was also entered. Here the thief was seen by the housemaid, whose room he entered with a lighted candle. On her awakening he threatened to blow her brains out if she gave an alarm. Then he look the contents of her purse, threw the empty purse at her, and decamped. The police have some clue from the description given by the housemaid.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9091, 16 May 1908, Page 5
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140BURGLAR AT MARTON. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9091, 16 May 1908, Page 5
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