BURGLARY INCIDENT

Evening Star, Issue 19745, 21 December 1927, Page 11

BURGLARY INCIDENT

A PLAN THAT FAILED [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 20. An impudent and daring attempt was made by two men in the early hours of Sunday morning to enter a Cashmere Hills residence. Presumably they had expected to find the house empty, as the owners were absent on holiday, hut when they were surprised by two young women in the house they persisted in their efforts to force an until the girls’ screams drew the attention of the Hon. R. Moore, who resides nearby. Awakened suddenly by sounds of movement outside the room in which they were sleeping, the women were startled to see the figure of a man silhouetted on the panes of the glass window in the door leading from the balcony. Both girls screamed, but one of them at once rang up the police. Hearing the telephone call, the man on the balcony renewed his efforts to force the door, but without success. In the meantime ho was joined by his confederate, who had been trying to open the back door of the house. The two then endeavored to prise open a fanlight window in another bedroom, paying no attention to the screams of the gilds. The men failed in this, and went round to the back of the house. The girls .decided to make a dash for the house next door, and they_ reached the street when Mr Moore arrived. He was in time to see the men clambering over a fence into an empty section.“ The police arrived soon afterwards. They searched the neighborhood, but the men had disappeared.