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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 49, 26 February 1921, Page 7

Paseers-by in .0. Latin quarter street of Para were- spellbound by tho amazing acrobatic feats performed by a burglar, who led the police in an exciting chase across the house-tops. It was believed at hrst that tho hunt formed part of a film play, and tho spectators began to loolt for tho camera man, but the "fiero" was in reality a former professional acrobat, who tad turned criminal. He was surprised inside a house, and at onco leapt from a window on a root 15ft lower, ran nimbly along the roof, and lowered 'himself from the gutter. He dropped on the balcony of the floor below, leapt- to the balcony of another iiouso several- feet away, scrambled up a draih-pipo to the roof, and disappeared. Eventually lio omorgod into tho street from a houro five doors further on, where ho was captured rauoh exhausted, lie had crossed six roofs and three' courtyards, and scrambled up three-drain-pipes,'