BURGLARS FOILED

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 April 1932, Page 5

BURGLARS FOILED

PARROT DEFENDS GOLD.

PARIS, February 19.

Two burglars who raided a house at Marseilles have been put to flight by a parrot. M. Ourdan, a dentist, and his wife went out last night to a theatre, leaving only the parrot at home. Burglars broke into the place and began to loot it. Having found jewels worth £l6 in a bedroom, they went into the dentist’s surgery, and discovered in a cupboard several ingots of pure gold. They were about to appropriate these when they were alarmed by loud whistles from the corridor and a voice calling, “This way, please. We’ve got them.” So alarmed were the men that they left the gold blocks where they were and made off much more quickly than they had come—to the accompaniment of whistles and shouts.

Tho dentist, in view of the very possibility that had arisen, had trained his parrot to whistle and shout the phrase quoted whenever a stranger entered the place.