A CANDID MISCREANT.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 6

A CANDID MISCREANT.

BURGLARY AT WANGANUI

i United Phess Association.]

Wanganuj, July 25

About two oVlock tills afternoon a .prisoner named George Albert VVallingiprd. awaiting trial for <a series of thefts from hotels lie re escaped .from gaol. He had been in the washing house, and during the momentary absence of a warder, disappeared. The police spent s n energetic five hours.in search, until a. telephone message from Mr. S. J. Gordon, manager of the- Bank of Australasia, announced "that <a burglar was ia his house. Constable Ke^nan was promptly on the scene, and found the burglar to be "WalJingford. The burglar had got in through a-window while the family was at tea*. Mr Cordon h-vd -occasion to go into the* front portion -of tho house, and thero ::aWiot!!ri'ao moving. Thinking it was his .v"m. tie asked, •■What are •you <\;:\:v± her:." and the burglar candtdh li'jj'^-cl. "I'm thieving." Tlie arrest was An easy matter, and Wallingford was watched until the ■police, arrived. Et then transpired that the house of Bertram Lambert, o;i tho other side of tho road, lied bean .MitL-rc-d. The prisoner showed tlir* police wh<*ro he had I lid den tlio .irtiolcs. Hi.---, swag altogether totalled about tWJ.