Burgling Humorist.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 7, 12 August 1908, Page 8

Burgling Humorist.

France has had a fairly representative selection of burglars and other criminals of late, but the typewriting burglar is a novelty. He broke into a flat in a house in Toulouse recently, helped himself to a few valuables, and left the following letter neatly typewritten on a machine in the room: — "Sir and dear Colleague,—l think by your untidiness that you are no lady, but untidiness means a busy man. So I congratulate you. "I can see that you are a professional typist like myself, and guessing that you were one, I looked into your box of papers for your keys, and naturally found (hem there. “I have emptied the drawers in your table, out of which I have taken 1/8-5. This is a low price for an evening’s work, but I have also carried off some of your work, which I will study at my leisure, Some of your translation is quite good. I do a little of it myself in my spare moments. “I am not taking your machine or your shorthand machine, for you and I know how very nearly impossible it is to sell a second-hand typewriter. “Yon will forgive me, my dear colleague, for not signing this letter, and you need not fear a return visit from me. There is nothing worth taking in your rooms.”