NO THIEVES LIKE CHINAMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11399, 17 April 1899, Page 6

NO THIEVES LIKE CHINAMEN.

"There are no thieves in the world more expert than Chinamen," said an. English gentleman who has lately returned from the

" Flowery Land," and who some time ago was for years connected with the London police administration. "Let me," he continued, "give you two cases in which I personally was concerned to show.you what a cool thief Ah Sin is. I was giving a dinner-party, the table was decorated with silver plate, and heavy candlesticks and candles furnished the necessary light. .We were all chatting pleasantly, when, as quickly as I cau tell it, long bamboos stretched through the blinds and over our heads, and in an instant the candles were out, for the thieves had blown hard through hollow bamboos. At the same moment there was a rush in the darkness ; hazy forms came through the open windows, tearing the blinds aside, and in a moment half a dozen native.1, each with some articles of silver plate, were racing through the darkness. Only one was caught, and we never got any of the plate back..

"In the other ease I was continually losing poultry out of a yard with a very high wall. After much watching, my son found a Chinaman placidly fishing for the fowls. He had a long stick, a line, and a hook baited with some dainty at the end of it. He had hooked one bird, wrung its neck, and had put it carefully in a bag before he was surprised. I could tell you some instances of Chine*. skill at pocket-picking ano. other forme of theft that would astound you."

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