LONDON GIRL'S SCARE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 226, 24 September 1927, Page 23

LONDON GIRL'S SCARE.

AWAKENED BY MAN AT WINDOW

Awakened about 3 a.m. by a man opening her bedroom window, Miss Gwendoline Ivimy, a secretary, living at a club for young women at Southwick Street, W., London, calmly told the intruder to go away. Her room is on the ground floor and opens on to a concrete landing. The man cried, "Let me in, lady; let me in. I didn't know anybody lived here, and I want to get to the front door." Miss Ivimy, in an interview, said she was more bad tempered than frightened, so she said, "Certainly not You go back where you came from." Mies Ivimy then jumped out of bed, closed and bolted her window on the man, ran to the front of the house and called a. policeman. A man was caught. It is thought that the man had climbed a pipe outside a house in Oxford Square and had collected valuables from that house and from the one next door. Surprised by a policeman he had climbed to the roof and had run along the roofs of Oxford Square to Southwick Street, eventually climbing down to Miss Ivimy's window.