AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 447, 4 March 1909, Page 3

AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.

A PLUCKY OLD LADY. (BT TELEGRAPH—PItESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, March 3. A very impudent visit was made to-day about noon to a house in St. Albans which is occupied by an old lady. She is alone, but relatives aro next-door neighbours. A tall, able-bodied swagger marched in through the open door and went through into a bedroom and began to ransack it. The lady, on_ going in to sec what was causing the noise, quickly got an .impression that a robbery was being perpetrated, and she rushed at the man and endeavoured to strike him Ho caught her by the right wrist, but did not behave roughly, and made his way outside 011 to the road without taking anything from the house. Ho walked for some distance and then sat down, tin-owing his swag on to the ground. Apparently he got up again and left the swag lying there, as when a constable, who was telephoned for, arrived he found the swag but 110 signs of the man The • swag contained a lady's triple-folding looking glass, a pair of new slippers, and a card bearing the name of a well-known Christchurch family.