A THIEF DISTURBED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 7 April 1908, Page 5

A THIEF DISTURBED.

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J"tftES3 ASSOCiAiION.] AUCKLAND, April 6. At Moufii Ifekill on a^ thief entered the house of Mr Moon.. .All £he family were at home, Mr Moon and wife in the garden x and pome children actually in the house, but 'the' thief got into a bedroom unobserved, and went to work until interrupted by the entrance of Mrs Moon, when he scrambled under' a bed. Mis Moon at once gave the alarm, and | as her husband .came to her call the man dashed out from his hiding place and made his exit by the front door. The ensuing race across country was replete with incident. The bootless thief, with Mr Moan close to his heels, jumped a wall and two barbed wire fences, his pursuer being also successful in negotiating them. Observing that he was losing ground, the quarry doffed Mb coat. Gaining a. material advantage, the fugitive led the chase. A boy on horseback made, an effort to block the man, who, I however, was finally aucceseful in gaining | the cover of the scrub near St. JoKn's Collegiate School. The police, although .they searched until dusk, could find no i trace of the wanted man. After the departure of <the thief, the jewellery, valued jat about £40, was found lying loosely i under the bed, the intrudter having been | unable to find the sum" of £20 which was; in the room. The 'losses are trifling.