CAT AS BURGLAR

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

CAT AS BURGLAR

A NOCTURNAL VISITOR. Perhaps there are not so many stray cats in Paris as there are in a New Zealand town, and there is no place where you can see them as you can in the Forum of Hadrian in Rome, sunning themselves by hundreds on broken columns and other ruined fragments of classical architecture. But there is a derelict square in Montmartre where a good many od them are assembled; and their numbers are certainly not diminished by the fact that certain kindhearted old ladies of the neighbourhood turn up every evening with titbits of household refuse wrapped in newspaper, and throw them through the railings into what is called the garden. Perhaps it was from this square that an ingenious thief recruited the fine tabby which has just been caught in .the act of burglary. For some time the feminine inhabitants of a block of flats in the rue Deeres had noticed that certain delicate articles of their personal wardrobe had been disappearing in a mysterious manner; but there were no signs of anyone breaking in, and the windows were so high that it seemed impossible for anyone to climb up. Eventually a trap was set, and in the early hours of the morning a loud mewing indicated that a pi’isoner had been secured. The cat was found with a beautiful garment of silk linon. which it had almost torn to pieces in its struggles to escape from the trap. Its trainer has not yet appeared to claim the animal.