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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1289, 12 November 1896, Page 33

Just before 3 o'clock in the morning recently, Mrs Mcllroy, wife of Dr Mcllroy, of Katieville, Johnstone street, Annandale, Sydney, heard stealthy footsteps moving about the bedroom. Feeling assured that some stranger was thero, she resorted to stratagem and said in a semi-loud tone to her husband, " Oh, I've cramp in my foot. Will you rub it ?" Half sleepy, Dr McTlroy consented, and then with a word of caution the doctor was informed by whisper thai; someone was creeping on the floor at tho foot of the bed. Suddenly turning tho gas jet adjacent to the bed fully on, Dr Mcllroy jumped out of bed and pinned the man to tho ground. The suddenness of the assault took the intruder by surprise, and he, finding himself in the iron grasp of an athletic man, began shouting to be let go. Dr Mcllroy got his wife to telophone for the police. Constable Wallace, of the Newtown station, received the message at 3.10 a.m., and SeniorConstable Coutfcs, being in the station, mounted the "police bicycle, and within a few minutes had the prisoner in his charge. He took the man to the Newtown police station and charged him with breaking and entering. On searching the accused, who gave his name and description as Henry Charlesworth, aged 31, and a native of Victoria, a silver hunting stop watch, a double gold albert, and gold brooch, tho property of Dr and Mrs Mcllroy, were found on him. The foundations of the new Catholic Cathedral at Westminster, the dearest project of Cardinal Vaughan, have been completed. Forty-two prominent Roman Catholics subscribed £IOOO each towards the erection of tha sacred edifice.