VETERAN AND BURGLAR.
STORY OF A FIGHT. A retired naval officer, nearly 80 years of age, told a dramatic story of his struggle with an intruder at 3 a.m.. to the magistrates at Canterbury, England, lately In the dock stood a man, who was later committed for trial on a charge of breaking into tho house of Captain C F Oldham, R.N Captain Oldham said he was awakened by a noise downstairs, and going down found the man crouching behind a sofa He took the man to the hall, and when he attempted to telephone for the police there was a desperate struggle for the possession of the receiver. The burglar managed to escape. A constable, who was summoned by telephone, said he saw tho man dash over a hedge. He chased him across a field and arrested him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)
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