Burgling in Auckland.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 396, 28 December 1889, Page 3

Burgling in Auckland.

Last Saturday’s Auckland Herald has the following s—“ The Ponsonby bqrgling epidemic |is beginning to assume a comic rather than a serious aspect. Ou Thursday, near midnight, Detective Herbert had a chase after a young man on the Jervios Road, but as a stern chase is proverbially a long one, the officer hailed Mr Tracy, who waa passing by in hie dogcart. Mr Traoy la a supporter of law and order, and he and the detective drove on in hot puriuit. The young man, on whom their suspicions were fixed, fancies himself as an athlete, and gave the dogqart a spin for it. When he WM interviewed he wae found to be a peaceable citizen, on his way home, and just keeping himself in training in athletics Another deotective was also victimised down Sentinel Road. As he passed along in the deepening twilight, he noticed the side window of one of the residences half up, and the house apparently in total darkness, and no one in. To slip into tl;o garden to that side window’after '* the man in rubber goloshes " was the work of a moment, and reaching his arm through ths window, he tapped on the table with- his stiolc and awaited developments. It seems the young ladies of the house were meditating in silence on the balcony after the day’s exer tions, and the first they knew of a man’s presence below was the tap on the table. Believing they had got the burglar at lest, they set tbe dog loose on the man at the window. Before the dog could get a square mouthful of New Zealand tweed, the detective managed to call out end explain matters to the satisfaetion of the your" ~ anlßa Another ones Isrousjiy droll,’ and"happened ths ? on,oll by• Bead. The man servant bad been granted a holiday, and got up in the morning by candle light to dean up the boots and sort up before he left for the The master of the house was aroused b ? no’onted sounds, saw a flash

of light downstairs, end deemed that .he long looked for opportunity of securing the burglar had come. He roused a young man, hie guest, and the two sallied down. The servant earing the procession in white coming down, fended be might get e tap on th* head beforq he had made things clear, so be mdeqUy blew out th* light, ffih* mastqs and his guest bocata* more convinced than ever that their suspicions were well founded, and the group were considerably mixed up before mutual explanations were exchanged, and matters satisfactorily adjusted.