BURGLAR FOUND IN HOUSE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 82, 31 December 1928, Page 10

BURGLAR FOUND IN HOUSE

EXCITING STRUGGLE AND

CHASE

Dominion Special Service.

Auckland, December 30.

Discovered when ransacking a house in Argyle Street, Herne Bay, early last night, a burglar received severe treatment from one of the occupants, Mr. D. L. Goldwater. A struggle, in which the honours rested with Mr. Goldwater, a dash by the intruder for liberty, ’ and a chase in a neighbouring street were exciting incidents which followed. Misses Goldwater left by motor-car early in the evening. Shortly after their departure Mr. Goldwater, who had been out playing bowls, returned home to the apparently unoccupied house, and heard a noise in an upstairs room, where he found a man endeavouring to open a drawer. He grappled with him, and a struggle ensiled. Eluding Mr. Goldwater’s grasp, the man dashed out of the house, and made good bis escape. No valuables .were taken.