EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.
One night Jast week a desperado broke into the bouse of an old lady living In the Western Addition, and was about carrying off her valaubles when the owner awoke and gave the alarm, The ruffian seized the aged woman by the throat, and would have strangled her in the darkness were it not that her screams attracted the attention of a man who rushed in and felled the burglar just in the nick of time. With the assistance of the neighbours the rascal was secured and bound. When the lights were brought, however, the bystanders gave a murmur of surprise, and they gazed on the brave stranger with deep emotion.
Ho was a policoman. " Can it be possible ?" said one oldest inhabitant to another, " Thank heaven, I have lived to see this day!' Everybody was deeply affected. "Donot deceive yoursolf, my %j<L people," said the alleged guardian of the peace. "I am not a real policeman ; I was only coming home from a masquerade, where I have been in this costume." " We might have known it," muttered the spectators; and with deep sighs they dispersed, i
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 17 March 1882, Page 2
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189EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 17 March 1882, Page 2
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