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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19115, 26 September 1927, Page 6

A G-isborne resident wishes now that he had taken a closer note of the appearance of a middle-aged woman lie found in his house on a recent evening (says the Poverty Bay "Herald"). The citizen was reading in one room, and, hearing a noise in the maid's room, went to investigate. He encountered the woman coming out and believing her to be a friend of the absent maid, asked if she were in search of the girl. The visitor replied that she had just brought a parcel for her, whose name she was quick to seize upon from the casual enquiry of the householder. The latter let her leave the house, but later was chagrined to find that the room had been ransacked and articles taken by the visitor, who, of course, was unknown to the maid. The same woman, it is believed, was seen by a little boy attempting to open the door of another house with a key. She told the lad she was looking for his mother, and on learning that the latter was out, declined an invitation to talk to the sister, and walked off. The houses were both in the vicinity of a third house, from which a quantity of clothing was stolen by night from the clothes-line.