MYSTERY BURGLAR

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 291, 4 September 1931, Page 11

MYSTERY BURGLAR

Auckland Detectives Puzzled COLLEGE BOY DISGUISE Dominion Special Service. Auckland, September 3. A new move to prevent detection and capture has been made by a mysterious burglar who for two years is believed to have been stealing money from houses in the city and suburbs. Tbe thief’s latest step is the adoption of disguises. Last week he entered a house wearing the clothes of a college boy. The Incident, as far as it is known to the, police, is that the occupier of a house in one of the suburbs says he awoke one night to find a schoolboy in his room. He was busy going through the pockets of the householder’s trousers which had been left lying over a chair. The informant states he sat up in bed and called out: “What are you doing with those trousers?” It is reported that the intruder was .out of the room and away from the house like a shot, leaving what money there was behind.

It is believed the intruder was none other than the mysterious thief. Confirmation in part has come through the report of a maid in another house, who declares she saw a boy in the grounds on a recent night. This mystery burglar has had an unprecedented run of luck in a succession of thefts from private houses. As he takes only money from houses he has proved a source of some trouble to tbe police. On entering a house he generally leaves his shoes outside, and three pairs of canvas shoes dropped in hurried flight have been found by the police.