BURGLAR MOTORIST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

BURGLAR MOTORIST.

NIIIHT K.AIDS IX A fcU H.l'. OAK. A nrr.oi.Aß with ,i 60-b.p. 'motor-ear h*' been sowing terror in a score of town* and village.", hi iv of them close to Pari?. Hi« favourite method was to call in the daytime on a solicitor to invent some business and to return secretly .it night with burglar's tools, when his observations in the daytime rendered theft eg ay. A few* hours later lie w.ih miles away upon his powerful car. Sometime* In- succeeded in otfeitiii£ two burglaries in different towns in a pintle night.. in February alont? lie operated at Mt-aux, at Chateau Thierry, at Chalons, ami at a dozen other placets in tile depart- > mentis of the Kure. the Maine, the Aistie, . and Feine-ot-Mitrne. Always the thefts coincided with the appearance .of the handsome traveller in tin- 60-fi.p. car. The pro- - feeds of his burglaries were, comparatively small, ranging front £40 to £400, hut th« aggregate was extremely large. Five burglaries were perpetrated at Chateau Thierry alone. A young man, .suspected of being th* • ''motor-burglar." was arrested recently at Marseilles. He confessed to a number of burglaries in the neighbourhood of Pari!" and other districts. lie was just about to sail for Buenos Ay res in ijile&t, he re- „ marked resignedly, of "peaceful oblivion.' v> '