BURGLAR AND TAILOR’S DUMMY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 7

BURGLAR AND TAILOR’S DUMMY.

AN UNSUCCESSFUL RUSE.

From Cologne, a city where truth is often stranger than the films, conies a story of a burglar who vainly sought to escape the consequences of his wrongdoing by means of a subterfuge which has more than once saved Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd -from disaster. The Koluische Zeitung tells how a late passer-by in the neighbourhood of the Holie Pforte surprised three shopbreakers, who ran away at his approach, leaving a broken .shop window. All the wax figures in tho window save one had been stripped of clothing, and tho intruders' on taking flight had left this clothing in a heap on the floor. The police, summoned by the newcomer, awoke the shop-owner, who was on an upper floor, and he, examining the window, was gratified to find that he had lost nothing. A last look_ round ill the darkness before returning to bed suddenly awakened him to the knowledge that lie had even gained something—a clothed dummy * which had not previously been there. This figure, standing in tho attitude of studied elegance expected of the waxen inhabitants of shop windows, at first remained obstinately immobile, but when a policeman produced a revolver it came to life and agreed to go | quietly.