20 POLICE FOR OFFICE BOY.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 56, 25 February 1913, Page 2

20 POLICE FOR OFFICE BOY.

1 Twenty policemen watched a shop in the West End (London) for an hour the other night, hoping to catdi a burglar, but when the "burglar" emerged from the building he was the office-boy who had been locked in. A police-constable, seeing a figure moving about an upper floor at 79, Great Portland-street, occupied by Messrs Frederich Wieh and Co., leather merchants, sent a message to Tottenham Court-road Police Station. Shortly afterwards 20 police officers were intently watching the premises from every side. People quickly gathered, and after an hour's vigil, during which the mysterious figure was seen moving from window to window on the upper floor, the police sent for the caretaker. When lie unlocked the main door there walked out the office boy. Bv an inadvertence he had been locked in when the premises were closed at eight o'clock. He was somewhat frightened at his two hours' imprisonment in the descried building, but he brightened up wonderfully when told that 20 powerful policemen had mistaken liim for a bm ™- lar.