PURSUIT OF A BURGLAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18690, 22 April 1924, Page 6

PURSUIT OF A BURGLAR.

CHASE ALONG-STREETS.'. ! INCIDENT IN GRAFTON, SURPRISED ENTERING ROOM, A burglar who had been surprised in a house in Grafton Road was chased along a number of the city streets lasj evening without being captured. It was about 6 p.m. that the occupants of Mrs. C. Spencer's residence, 18, Grafton Road, became aware of the presence in the house of a strange, man. Entry had evidently been made through thq front sitting' room window while th/ 1 family was in the lower part of ths house preparing for the evening meal. A young lady, on her way down the passage, saw a man in sand-shoes on t'na point of entering a bedroom. She; screamed, whereupon the; intruder decamped.

The man was followed by the young lady's brother, who, though coatless and only in his stockinged feet., gave cuasd along Wyndham and Haycock Streets; until the fugitive dashed oss Lower Symcnds Street and enterc Government House grounds. The piirsuar, in an endeavour to intercept him, ran round t0 the Princes Street boundary of th« grounds and before waiting very long was rewarded by seeing his quarry; scaling the fence. The stranger, however, was quick to observe the young man and hurriedly retraced his steps, eventually becoming lost in the vicinity of the new University College grounds. It was practically dark at tho time and pursuit was difficult. Nothing was missed from the house; which had been entered.