CHCH. NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 January 1926, Page 4

CHCH. NEWS

SCHOLASTIC APPOINTMENTS. (Special to “Star.”) CHRISTCHURCH, January, 23./ ■’ The following appointments were made yesterday by the. Canterbury Education Board: — Greymouth: D. M. Shirlaw, head master. , ( Koiterangi: Miss J. S. Sloane, sole teacher. Moana': Miss E. J. Pointon; sole teacher. Wallis Siding: Miss E. D. Butler, sole teacher. The resignation was accepted of Miss N. Hopkins, of Greymouth.

MIDNIGHT INTRUDER.

A solicitor, who resides in Papanui Road, was reading in bed when, his wife whispered that’a man had looked through the window. Sure enough, he saw the shadow of a man outside. Slipping of bed, the householder entered another room', which was in darkness, and peered out of the window. A man, by the bedroom window* went round the corner of the house. At the gate was another man, obviously a confederate. After glancing up and down the street, the man outside came through the gate,, and cautiously moved across the lawn. He was carrying a bag. The time was ripe to enter an injunction. In bare feet and pyjamas, the. solicitor rushed out of the house and made for the man on the lawn. The intruder turned and bolted, grabbing a bicycle at the gate, pedalling desperately. Swift on his back wheel came the pursuer. The cyclist turned into May’s Road. The man behind tripped- over a culvert, but he overhauled the intruder cyclist, who jumped off his bicycle. He proved to be thick-set and pugnacious. “You are a but nevpr mind what he told the householder, who made suitable response. Blows followed. The bicycle was between the two combatants, fortunately for the solicitor,whose feet might otherwise have suffered. Then the prowler put his hand in his pocket. It looked as if he wap drawing a weapon of some sort. For the first time, the solicitor thought of getting assistance. “Help l ” he yelled. At the cry, the man dropped both, the bag and bicycle which he had held -in the. struggle; and ,'ran.-;.lt was then that: the solicitor found his big toe was sprained and his feet were cult by the stones. A blow on the'forearm caused a stiffening of the? muscles. In no shape to continue the chase, he gathered, up the spoils, which were: a perfectly good bicycle and a bag, and returned to his residence. Within seven minutes of a telephone call, the police were on the scene. Investigation showed that the man first noticed at the window apparently escaped over the back fence, there being feet and other marks of his 'presence. ; : The Sergeant in charge promised to call in the morning to collect the bitcycle and the police left. Now come? an illustration of the legal mind. “The owner may come back for that bicycle and may pretend to be a policeman, ? said the solicitor, as in the morning he bade his wife farewell before he departed for business. “So be careful; He is a thick-set man.” i > An hour later a thick-set man knocked at the door, and asked the v wife for the bicycle. “I- think it is gone,”, she said, and pretending to go to the back of the house and invests gate. Then she returned and informed the caller that someone had taken the bicycle away. -J

The solicitor was sitting in the Court when a plainclothes constable nudged his elbow. “I say,” he said, “someone has taken the Bicycle, away. Your wife here,” came the voice of the wife.over has just told me so.’’ The. /solicitor went to the telephone. “Yes, bicycle the telephone, “but.l.didn’t like the look of the man who called.”