BURGLAR IN SCHOOL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 95, 12 June 1911, Page 7

BURGLAR IN SCHOOL.

Albert Edward Robert Elgood, 61, boot clicker, was charged at AVaie, Herefordshire, recently, with huiglan oitr.ly breaking; into AV are Girls’ Grammar'School and stealing a gold \Vatch uul other articles. Miss Licmc Holton, resident misIrose, at the school, said that about .oia o’clock in the morning she was. -.wakened bv a. noise on! side her bedroom. Jumping cut ol bed, she wont into the collider, and saw someone on the stairs. She said. ‘‘Who arc von?” and a man’s voice replied, “Go hack to lied.” Mias Holton ordered the man, who bud his hoots oil', to go downstairs, which ho did. She followed, and on the way down he turned and said, “Conic on down.” She asked what for, and he answered, “'To let me out.” “I asked him lo wait while I turned on the light,” continued Miss Hollo!), “and relumed upstairs to do so. Ho wailed at the bottom of the stairs, and when I came down ho said, “J am a burglar. Not a word in anyone. Lot mo out.” Wo then shook hands as a compact that I should not arouse the house. He put on his hoots, and while doing; so I asked him to go quietly as there was someone ill in the house. He made me promise not to rouse the house, and wished mo good mottling. I then let him out hv the front door.” Alisa Holton rode on tier bicycle and informed the police, and Elgood was at Tested. lie was committed for trial.