BURGLAR SURPRISED
ESCAPE AFTER CAPTURE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, 6th March. A hotel burglary was frustrated when a guest, found a man, without boots and on Ms hands and knees in a bedroom of a New Plymouth hotel in the early hours of this morning. With the assistance of the night porter the man was captured. The burglar surrendered, and was escorted to the hotel office while the porter rang for the police. Then the culprit changed his mind about going quietly and broko away, raced up the stairs, and escaped by the firo escape. He was thought to be a half-caste Maori. A hat. he left behind and his description were given to tho police. The nightwatchman had visited the hotel yard just before the man was surprised, and the police arrived just after the escape, while in the room next to that he had entered was Mr. Justice Beed. As far as is known, nothing of value is missing.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 56, 7 March 1930, Page 10
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162BURGLAR SURPRISED Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 56, 7 March 1930, Page 10
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