A BURGLAR'S DISGUISE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12390, 4 November 1908, Page 1

A BURGLAR'S DISGUISE.

An amusing story comes from Berck-Plage, a popular seaside resort near 'Boulogne. Every evening at sunset a young Moorish lady, with brilliant black . eyes,, dressed in a -white- "burnous," which covered her '. hair, : knelt on the sands and prayed to Allah in & melodious voice. ; The Dublic. were, much interested. The police had suspicions and watched the lady closely, for she had been ss?n at; night in the vicinity of houses md villas which had just been robbed. Two nights -ago she was canght red-handed. ■ - I At the police station it was found that the "praying lady" was a man called Fernandez, a Spaniard, aged eighteen, and known as a dangerous burglar. . ' •/■-;