The police are searching for a burglar who entered the house of Mr. 8. H. Lewis, 44 Kinnear Road, shortly after midnight on Sunday.
The thief's entrance was th signal for a dog's barking which awoke Mrs. Lewis. On looking towards her dressing table she saw the burglar coolly regarding her. When she cried for help, her husband immediately rushed down-after the intruder, who escaped by way of the bathroom adjoining Mrs. Lewis's apartment. The room was considerably disarranged, but it was found that nothing had been stolen.
Tt appears certain that the culprit is a man whom the police have been looking for for some time. His usual methods are to get into a house at the back, lock the kitchen door and escape from the front of the premises. Electrical appliances and gramophone record seem to be the chief objects of his housebreaking exploits. of Commerce, a-member of the Imperial Institute advisory committee on mineral resources, a. member of the executive council of the Associ tion of British Chambers of Com-cere, and a director of half a dozen "engineering rms.
Miss Mabel Winifred Gould, a former pupil of Hankow British School now at Helena High School, Burgess Hill, Sussex, has just won the Senior Scholarship of the schoo, value £60, the senior scripture prize jand a prize for French.
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