BURGLARS IN A LADY'S BEDROOM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8986, 17 September 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

BURGLARS IN A LADY'S BEDROOM.

To wake up and find several burglars in one's bedroom engaged in plunder is anything but a pleasant experience, the more so when one reflects that the slightest movement or attempt to summon assistance might lead to further and more disastrous action on their part. Such, however, was the very disagreeable position in which the daughter of a well-known publisher found herself a night or two ago. Her father has a villa in the environs of the metropolis, an 1 during the small hours of the morningthieves effected their entrance into the house by one of the windows of her chamber, having cub the glaSs through with a diamond. She was fast asleep at the time — a fact of which, no doubt, they had assured themselves on entering the room—and she was only disturbed by the noise which they made while busily ransacking a wardrobe. The first and natural impulse of the young lady was to cry for assistance, but with remarkable presence of mind she controlled herself, and prudently feigning sleep, waited patiently, though with no littlo trepidation, until the coast was clear. At last, after having rifled all the drawers, and convinced themselves, as they imagined, that the girl was still fast locked in slumber, the burglars passed into an adjoining chamber. The young lady, thus relieved of their unwelcome presence, lost no time in pressing the button of the electric bell close to her bed. Her parents were at once aroused, and the thieves, finding that they were discovered, made their exit from the window with the utmost despatch, leaving behind them all the valuables which they had collected. It certainly required no little nerve to act thus, and there is no doubt that, but for the cool courage displayed by the young lady, the burglars | would eventually have made off with a con- | eiderable amount of booty.