HOUSEBREAKING IN GREY-STREET.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3582, 11 January 1869, Page 3

HOUSEBREAKING IN GREY-STREET.

On Saturday night, a man named Patrick Murphy was given into custody for breaking into the house of Mr. JR. H. Bartlett, of Grey-street, and stealing a revolver, three blankets, and a black dress ooafc. It appears, for Borne days past Mr. Bartlett has been at the Thames, and that during his absence a Mr. George A. Steel lias been looking after bia business in town, and sleeping at his residence in Grey-street at nijjht. On returning about ten o'clock on Saturday evening, he was surprised at seeing a light in one of the windows, and supposed that Mr. Bartlett had returned from the Thames. He knocked at the door, but no one answering he opened the door with the key, when he saw Murphy in the passage. He immediately collared him and looked him in one of the, rooms, and on making a search he found that a revolver was missing from its place on a table by the bedside, where he had left it in the morning. A bundle was lying on one of the chairs which had been made up by the prisoner, and which would no donbb have been carried ofi had it not been for the opportune arrival of Mr. Steel. Ob missing the revolver, that gentleman went in to Murphy and asked him what he had done with it, when the latter lifted up the bedoluthes, took it from beneath, and handed it over. Mr. Steel then sent for assistance, and, on the arrival of detective Temahau, Murphy was given into his his charge and conveyed to the lock-up.