THE LADY AND THE BURGLAR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 287, 28 August 1908, Page 5

THE LADY AND THE BURGLAR.

Wairarapa readers will remember' the story of a heroic lady who some' two or three years ago.waked from her slumbers to hear some-one-stirring in the .house,'rose, lighted a candle, and,-armed with a slipper .'and. the candle, sailed forth to search for the dishonest. man."- ■ She found him, and as he : turned to . her approach she flung the slipper which caught him neatly on the . ear, whereupon the burglar fled. The story has been paralleled in New York, where, according to the correspondent of an English paper, a woman performed the same feat with a silver scent bottle. Major and Mrs. Cookson were asleep at the Hotel Belmont, New York, between 2 and' 3 o'clock one morning, when the burglar, who crawled aJong the stone coping, entered the bedroom window. - ' Mrs. Cookson awakened, and told' her husband that there was a man in tho room. The major crawled out of bed, turned ,on the • electric light, and the burglar was disclosed holding two, revolvers.■; The situation was • menacing. -. "Speak, and I will, shoot," said the man, facing the major. Meantime, Mrs. Cookson, with feminine strategy, edged away from the bed, and secured a big silver bottle, which she hurled desperately at the invader's head. The" missile caught tho burglar in; tho neck, and fn a moment the gallant major seized the opportunity, advanced to the attack, and gripped tho man. who was . young, and not particularly muscular, by tho throat, hurling him to tho ground, and then, sitting upon him. / Tho lady promptly went to tho bedroom telephone, and' informed \tho hotel manager that a burglar was in tho Toom, and that tho porter's assistance was required. . -. -y