BURGLARY EXPOSED.
A Seroat Girl Implicated.
One of the best known residents in one of the suburbs has quite recently been the victim of an intolerable amount of annoyance, and persecution at tbe hands of an impish, hysterical domestic. About » week ago the family were alarmed some time during the silent watches of the night by an unusual noise in the bouse, followed by the smashing of glass, and other unniistakeable evideuca of unwelcome visitors. Paterfamilias, who is the bead of a large commercial firm, and a Bian of mettle to boot, after a hurried consultation with the wife of his bosom, descending the stairs, revolver in hand, expectiogat every Btep to be brought face to face with his desperato visitors. But apparently
the burglars had decamped, but not before they bad played terrible havoc with the trappings and decorations in some of the downstair rooms, and that, too, iu a seemingly purposeless and wanton manner. The rooms were in an indescribable state of confusion. Expensive pictures were torn oft the walls and flung on the floor, tables were overturned, and costly ornaments and articles of vertu, littered in every direction. A window at the back of the house stood open, and through this clearly an entrance had been affected. Tbe police made a careful examination of the premises and surroundings, and interrogated everyone likely to throw any light on the mystery, but without effect. Two nights later the house was again entered, and almost the same demoniacal dance performed through tbe rooms, to the terror of the family. In this last instance the proceedings were varied by the screams of one of the servants, who stated that the burglar entered her apartment and threatened to murder her. Tbe girl was able to give a minute description of the imaginary Bill Sykes, as he c irried a light in bis hand. Police were specially told off to watch the house after this, but no one put in an appearance, though the girl Btates she had seen the burglar several times on the street and only a few nights ago rushed in in an excited slate and vowed he had accosted her ontside and cut off her hair. Her hair eertainly bad been severed close to the back of her bead and she bore other marks of having been violently handled. But the detectives began to smell a rat, as the phrase goes, and charged the girl with being herself the au&har of all the devilry. A medical examination l showed the girl to be suffering from a malignant form of bysteria, and it is not likely that any more will be heard of the matter.—Dunedin correspondent of the Tuapeka Times.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3912, 14 September 1891, Page 2
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450BURGLARY EXPOSED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3912, 14 September 1891, Page 2
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