BURGLAR “FIXED” ON DIZZY PARAPET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3657, 19 October 1912, Page 15

BURGLAR “FIXED” ON DIZZY PARAPET.

FIFTEEN ROOFS SUCCESSFULLY SEARCHED TO FIND HIM.

An exciting experience befel a burglar, whom the. police rescued from his dizzy perch on the top of a tall Sloano Street house, and took into the Westminster Police Court to charge with burglary. tie appeared in court in his shirt sleeves and was captured wearing a suit belonging to the occupant of the house in respect of which lie was charged. The man is a young painter named Albert Ash, and was accused with Geo. Herbert • Hancock with burglary at the residence of Mr. Cecil Pember, in Sloane Street.

Detective-Sergeant Reicl said Mr. Pember’s family were out of town, and the police were not yet in a position to state the extent of the robbery, The place was broken into, while unattended, in the early hours of Friday, and re-entered for further depredation on the following afternoon.

Sergeant Con ride said that a telephone message caused the police to surround the house on Friday afternoon. -When they entered they found the place in confusion, and the roofs of fifteen houses in the vicinity were searched before Ash was tracked down Ho was discovered behind the parapet of the-roof of premises in the rear. Ridden to come out, Ash said, forcibly, “I got got fixed ui) here and could not get down, or else you would not have had me.” He was wearing a suit of stolen clothes. In the lining of’his cap 4s was concealed. Alluding to it Ash said, “It is their money. It was all ‘the dust’ I could find.” Later he said, “We had a big bundle of things out at throe o’clock this morning, and I gave them to another chap to sell. We came back again to continue the business at one o’clock to-day.” A constable told how lie found Hancock on the se.ond floor of the house, hiding behind a door. . Hancock said, “The other man let me in.”

Roth men were remanded in custody.