GILBERTIAN BURGLARS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18223, 17 October 1922, Page 7

GILBERTIAN BURGLARS

THEFT FROM SOOTLAND YARD

LOST PROPERTY STOLEN. LONDON, Oct. 7. Burjglars haVe had the audacity to burgle Scotland Yard.

They climbed a wall flanking the garden, and from there reached the roof of the lost property office, 15ft. high, opened the skylight, and dropped to the floor. They rummaged the property undisturbed by the patrol outside the building, and undismayed by i;he knowledge that a hundred windows of the main buildings overlooked the lost property office. The burglars made their exit rather clumsily, and aroused the police, who were too late to catch the invaders. It was found that 20 umbrellas and some overcoats are now doubly lost. The Scotland Yard authorities think that the deei was done for a

wager. Ail London is hugging the joke in quits a Parisian fashion. Clever people are evolving jests at thrj expense of the Criminal Investigation Department. The music halls greedily seized on the chance, nnd many suggestions have been offered to prevent a repetition of the theft, such as the re-enlisting of wartime civilian special constables, and providing the Scotland Yard charwomen with police whistles. The Daily Mail denies the report that a policeman bought a cheap stolen umbrella on the Embankment. Two small boys, aged 11 and 8, chose the garden of the Hendon police station as the safest place to hide some stolen property. A policeman found them in the possession of some 10s notes, and the boys eventually admitted that they had burgled a,. shop near the station. When asked- where was the rest of the stolen property, they took the sergeant to his own garden, where he dug up the loot. The magistrate considered that the boys needed medical examination, and remanded them.