BURGLAR ESCAPES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 11

BURGLAR ESCAPES

CLIMB DOWN BUILDING (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A burglar escaped from the fourth floor of the Dilworth Building on a recent evening, when it was thought that he was trapped behind a locked door. There had been several thefts in the building, the occupier of one office losing a cheque for a considerable amount. From that time occupiers of other offices there had been on the look out. A few nights ago one business man had occasion to call back at his office on the fourth floor, and as soon as he opened the door he saw a man fiddling with a bunch of keys and trying to unlock a drawer in a desk. The business man promptly slammed the door, locked it, and called for the caretaker. Tho caretaker was handy^and the door was unlocked, but to the great astonishment of the pair the room was empty. A hurried glance over the sill of the window showed a man working his way dexterously towards the ground by means of a downpipe. It was far too perilous a path for the business man and the caretaker to follow, and when they hurried to the ground floor the burglar had vanished. The burglar carried his life in his hands, as the handhold was most precarious, and nobody but a man accustomed to dizzy heights could have trusted his grasp to bring him safely down the sheer wall of the building.