TOPICS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12398, 13 November 1908, Page 5

TOPICS.

A YOUNG LADY'S PLUCK,

Tlifi story of the following of a" man who had entered the residence of Mr Alfred Wauch at Angel street, Burwood, told at the Burwood Police Court the other day, places the conduct of a young lady, and that of a man in violent contrast (cays the "Sydney Morning Herald"). Miss Mildred" Wauell discovered an intruder crouched on his hands and knees alongside her mother's bed on Monday morning. She immediately rushed to the open front door, through which the man had gained admission, and closed it. She then asked the man what he . was doing there, • and lie replied, "Nothing," and then suddenly ran by her and unfastened the door,' and bolted down the street. Miss Wauch and her sister followed closely, and. on the way the former asked a man she met to assist in catching a burglar. The man, howovor, replied that he did not want to get shot attending to something that did not concern him. Fortunately others had more courage, and the man, after doubling on his tracks, and jumping some fences, was caught up with. He then pleaded hard with the young ladies to be allowed to go, but they had too keen a memory of the thefts going on in the suburbs and the warmth of the chase to display any mistaken kindness, and Constables T. Foreman, and W. H. Pearce soon had him in custody.