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Gisborne Times, 17 October 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

MASTER CRIMINAL. SCIENTIFIC BURGLAR WITH A LABORATORY. A remarkable burglar, Thomas "Rice Reid, notorious among the police and his fellow-criminals for his -high mental qualities and resourcefulness, -lias just been sentenced to fourteen years’ penaL servitude at Glasgow. He had pleaded guilty to three distinct charges of safe-breaking by moans of gunpowder, the stolen money amounting t 0 £BOO. Lord Guthrie, passing sentence, said the prisoner was an expert of the highest quality, who possessed an extraordinary collection-of tools. Reid’s outfit, it appeared, included clecric lamps, one of which showed red or white light as desired, specially designed blankets for " deadening sound, skeleton keys of the finest class, and a very superior tssortment of the better-known paraphernalia of the “profession.” Latterly, it is believed, he was more of a master criminal, directing operations, than an actual - “workman,” ■and bo had fitted up a laboratory for experiments in the use _of oxygen gas for safe-breaking, having come to the. conclusion that dynamite for this puiMiose is out of dqte ayd dangerous. He is thirty-eight years of ago, and lias followed a criminal life-since the age of fourteen. He has already served thirteen years’ penal servitude.

THE IDEAL NEIGHBOR. Sho doesn’t— “borrow. She buys what is needed, and if it happens that she cannot buy the necessary -article she goes without it ‘until she can. Borrowing never occurs to her. There •is some excuse for borrowing when, people live in the country, miles from a shop, but even then it should happen as seldom as possible, and in no case should one forget to return the borrowed necessary. People living in towns/ who can easily ; reach ashop, have n<> excuse whatever for borrowing. •_ / ■Then the ideal neighbor does not first make your acquaintance over the back, garden fence. She puts on her visiting costume and comes to see you by way of the front, door. Her children are taught that they must not , play by your fron t gate, •and that they havo no right on your promises except When invited. If her children and yours disagree, instead of discussing the matter with more' or less acrimony before them, thereby increasing the illfeeling, instead of J telling someone else • what ill-bred little animals your children , are, she she comes'over to sce you and brings all her tact 'and; good temper with ■ her? She has enough sense to understand that her children may sometimes do wrong as well as yours, and a friendly talk dispels the gathering ClOUds. ' If you aro ill she does not tako immediate and complete possession -of your house, bringing her . children with her,- but -comes in quietly,' is quick to see ihow she can help' you, and gives any assistance ..with such deftness and kindlmess.dhat’ youare almost willing to he i}!,' so you* way wi.joy her <WO, - -