Exceptionally smart work by the amombers of the Woosung section of he Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety resulted in the arrest, few hours after the crime. was committed, of a Chinese who burgled the home of Dr. B, H. Stanley Aylward, the Port Health Officer, early on Thursday morning, and the recovery of at least 95' per cent. of tthe stolen property.
Dr. Aylward lives in a house between the Bellevue Hotel and the Uighthouse and, as he is leaving hina for good about the middle of next month, he had packed up most his furniture, etc. His clothes wore loosely put in boxes and every was in readiness for the fax ly's departure for New Zealand.
At 630 asin. on Thursday, Dr. Aylward's houseboy woke him up and informed him that a thief had Doon in the house. The doctor went and had a look round and found that large quantity of his clothes and ther things had been stolen, He reported the matter to the Woosung police and they came at once, bringing a man whom they had caught, and whom they believed to be the thief.
'This man was questioned and he admitted that he had burgled the house and said that what happened was this—He came at 12.30 am, with the intention of burgling the house but the dog barked and he went away' When apparently the dog ad left, he came back again and gained entrance through the back door. Getting into the kitchen, he stole all the boy's and amah's clothing, some kettles and cooking utensils and other things, which he made into a) Dundle and hid among the reeds outside Dr, Aylward's house. Having electric torch, he used matches, the stubs of which were scattered rout all over the kitchen floor, Coming back again, he got into ithe main part of the house through 'a'window. Here he found the boxes filled with clothing, He made up two large bundles of these which he took to the station, a few minutes? walk away from the house, and hid in some tall grass near at hand. atter that he went away, carrying small bundle of loot. policeman on patrol seeing the bundle, called upon him to stop and explain what was inside but, as he could not ex-Plain, he was arrested.
At'ithe station, the police found that most of the spoons in the bundle bore English marks so they coneluded that a foreigner had keen the victim of a robbery.
'The burglar confessed to everything and took the police to where he had concealed his booty. seven o'clock, the police had returned to Dr. Aylward practically all of his property and, before noon, they drought in some other things.' Only 'a few things are still missing, at Toast 95 per cent. having been' covered.
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