Struggle with a Burglar.
»■ Shortly after midnight on April 2, two daughters of Captain Hunt, who has quarters at the Lincoln barracks, were awakened by a rustling noise in their bedroom. They called their father, who immediately went to the room and saw a man getting out of the window. Captain Hunt seized him, and in the struggle both fell downstairs. The man, a powerfullybuilt recruit, had a sword-bayonet in his hand and tried to stab the captain. One of the daughters got hold of tbe man's arm and twisted it nntil he dropped the bayonet. She then fetched a pair of tongs from an adjoining room and belaboured bhe man, who was still struggling with the captain. Captain Hunt then managed to g-et free ; and in the meantime the other sister had shouted from the window for lelp. The soldier on guard gave the alarm, )ther soldiers came up, and the man waa ;aken to the guard-room. The pay-office iad been broken into, but nothing was niasingi Captain Hunt waß seriously .rnieed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7177, 30 May 1891, Page 2
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