TWO AUDACIOUS BURGLARS

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144358, 24 March 1914, Page 8

TWO AUDACIOUS BURGLARS

Two well-dressed burglars surprised in a house m East aneeu &o impressed Uie occupier’s son by tlieir pUusioility that Jie.adowed them to go. The house had been temporarily unattended alter nightfall. Returning alone, the occupier's sou, a young man, was surprised to see a light in the dining-room, which vanished when the iront gate clicked as he opened it. Entering the diningroom and switching on the electric light he saw two men sitting in easy chairs by the fire. “What are you doing here?” he demanded. ’“What are you?” in turn demanded on© of tho men, who appeared to be slightly the worse for drink. “This is my house. 1 live here.” ‘‘What’s the joke? This is my house,” said the man. Then, looking round tho room, the man allowed himself to be persuaded that ho had made a mistake. He explained that ho Jived in a precisely similar house, a corner one, in a road near by. His key fitted the door of the house ho was now in, and having drunk a little more than lie was accustomed to he had made a most regrettable mistake. Ho was profoundly sorry. The man’s companion put on an offended air, and roundly upbraided him for making fools of both of them through drinking too much. Then, with renewed apologies, they walked off. Tho son noticed that, after departing, they did not turn in the direction of the address they hud mentioned, and in tho dining-room he afterwards discovered an overcoat behind an easy chair and found jewellery in the pockets. Nearly every room in the house, he found, had been ransacked. The overcoat in which one of the men walked off belonged to the son.