A BOY BURGLAR'S MANUAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XLII, Issue 3433, 30 June 1894, Page 5

A BOY BURGLAR'S MANUAL.

At Blackburn, in the course of the evidence given against a lad of sixteen, named Thomas Edward Dund(whowas committed for trial on fi?e charges of bousebreakinjr and felony) it was stated that in searching the lad's room a document headed "Instructionsto Burglars" was found between the joists of the B floor Ihis paper read as foljowa :-■« Make a Look for a tool in a window where there is such things like as handkerchiefs': Jemmys are the impliments for opening window sashes, prizing desks and doors open. You should all get pumps to make as least noise as possible/Don't go nervous ag you are apt to fall soft, Go with a will and try and make rope ladders Get a lantern and pull one of the glasses out and put a pieue of black tie inside which will make it a dark lantern Get a revolver and bullets from a shopaay your father wants it for rabbit shooting. For setting factories on fire get a glaes jar or a preserve-jar, Get a news, paper and sno?e it in the jar, Pour in some lamp oil on top of the paper, Then set it on fire with a match, and throw it through the window. Try. to get some skeleton keys, and then you can go into plenty of places. Have plenty of tools. Ihe jemmy is the best of the lot, Get a black crape to put over your eyes, so as to disguise you. Keep a six chambered revolver by you.' Get some ohiorodyne from the .chemists, and put it on your handkerchief and put it over some one's noses, which will send them unconscious Ihen take all the expensive things he has. . If you have a desire for revenge on any one; you can-get some prussic acidand when you are handing him or her a drink put the acid in, or get some vitriol and throw it .on someone's,face lin the dark, which will burn their face.' 'lf you put poison on a knife when the knife is red-hot, the knife will be poisoned, For blowing up a coal pit get the paper dipped in lamp oil, light ij.Lthrow it down the pit, when there will bo a terrific explosion. Never strike matches if you go m houses at midnight; carry a bit of bauding lit, then put the match powder

w ji. jiuy qmoKume it you happen t< kill anyone. Put the quicklime ove him so that it will burn him awai quickly. Always go brave and bolt when you are burgling-Yours truly "Daring Borglak," gome extraor dinary tales of the ; lad's operation! came to light, iucluding the rifling o a railway guard's van and the appropria tion ..of a railway,;hut for storing hii spoils.