Mysterious Nocturnal Visitor Who Baflles the Polize The Western district is again chuckling over the exploits of a burglar blessed with a sense of humour in addition to his predatory instincts. Hongkew and Central seem to get all the hardhearted gentlemen who work for money alone, robbing change shops, opium hongs and so forth, whilst the garden part of the Settlement at least gets a laugh in return for its losses. Some while ago it was a burglar who turned to account the story of the foreign lady ghost of Wongkashaw Gardens and made several good hauls before Detective-Sergeant Kiloh trapped hira and spoilt the ghost story. Then there was the gentleman who made a speciality of robbing the houses of judges and eminent lawyers.
The latest burglar is one who occasionally picks up a little money, but has an absolute passion for clothes, watches and clocks. Silver forks, spoons and trophies are safe with him, also silks, curios and pictures, but an old sports coat or a Waterbury are doomed. The police of Bubbling Well have sought for a long time to catch this burglar, but up to the present they have not the slightest clue to his identity, for innumerable specimens of fingerprints, al] by the same man, cannot be duplicated amongst the big collection in the rogues' gallery of the S.M.P.
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