A BURNHAM BOY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 153, 24 May 1900, Page 3

A BURNHAM BOY.

There is one persistent escapee from Bu-rnhain whose energy and exhaustive efforts in eluding capture it would ba : hard to beat. He is quite young, and looks only about fourteen years of age. On one occasion ho waa safely m custody, and with a manner of penfteut resignation offered to conduct the> detectives to a spot where he had " planted " some stolen property. The spot happened to be underneath a large house, and the drttectWes waited outside while the boy wriggled in. But Ino boy came out, and it became manifest that he had ob'igingly met the detectives half-way, and was waiting underneath the house as long as the detectives waited outside. Fourssmall boys had to be employed* underneath the house, before the other boy could be dislpdged, and it was only at ■ the second or 'third attempt that 'the, fugitive was found hauled -out.'

The boy subsequently escaped and inado his way to Teinplefcon, where he was again caught and placed for safe keeping in a barn. He irnrnedia,te]y climbed up to the top, broke a hole through the roof by pulling out the shingles, and made his escape te Ohnsl church, where he was agan attested. ?