MIDNIGHT CAPTURE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7727, 10 June 1903, Page 2

MIDNIGHT CAPTURE.

INTRUDER "HELD UP" WITH A SWORD. The story of the capture of a midnight intruder in the Royal Vauxhall Publichouse -was related! at Westminster Police Oourt recently, when Henry Wilson was charged with burglaries in Upper Kennington Lane. According to the prosecution, Wilson, after a burglarious tour of a butcher's premises, soon after mictaighb on Tuesday got into the public-house through a. skylight. A curtain-pole which 'he seized gave way, and the consequent noise aroused the man-, ager of the house t who appeared on the scene with a sword. The prisoner was then hanging from the framework of a large mirror beneath the skylight, and the manager, brandishing the sword, shouted, "If 'you move I shall run this through you." At this moment the framework of the mirror also gave way, and! Wilson fell with a crash^ breaking a table with which he came in contact. H© then dashed behind a counter, but the manager, still armed with the sword, quickly discovered !his hiding-place, and! Wilson exclaimed, "I'm done. I .give in." A policeman recounted the prisoner's previous adventures. He had, he said, broken into a butcher's shop and ransackcdl tho cupboards, and then, making his way over roofs and high walls, had forced the publiohouse skylight with a hatchet and 1 a poker. The skylight was (held „ open with a butcher's steel. i