NOTORIOUS THIEF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20108, 29 March 1928, Page 3

NOTORIOUS THIEF

A BOLD RASCAL Germany’s “king of cat burglars,-’ I‘ntz Wald by name, made his appearance before a Berlin Court a few weeks ago. It was slated in evince against him that booty to the total value of 2,000,000 marks (£100,000) had rewarded the efforts of his deft lingers and still defter toes. When asked by the Buiu'b whether he would admit 63 robberies cht.rgc a against him, he replied in-.-.-jdcj ently that it might bo three or four, more or less, but he would not challenge the figure. If not a king, Wald was at any rate a Raffles (says the Benin correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph). It was in lull evening dress, or, at least, dinner jacket, that he scrambled up rain-pipes and crawled along cornices to get access to incautiously ■pen bedit.oni windows in the Park lanes of Berlin and Hamburg He disdained the ist of violence, and was even courteous aim considerate so far as the exigencies of his profession allowed.

To the protests of a lady who awoke to find him slewing awuy the jewellery on her he replied by disgorging the plunder and retiring backwards through the window by which ho had entered with a low bow and an apology for having disturbed her rest. When h-* was oil duty his gallantry made many conquests n dancing halls and even in “society." Few cavaliers could be so profuse as he in gifts of valuable jewellery.