The Archive · 1928

Attempted Theft from Foreigner

The details of a brazen robbery on Bubbling Well Road on Sept. 8 were told before Judge Tseng at Provisional Court on Sept. 1 with the appearance of a coolie who took it upon himself to enter a private residence at No. 129 belonging to a Mra. Limby, a British resident, and after appropriating two felt hats from the hall hatstand gave ear to the old adage about' nothing succeeding like success, The coolie decided two good things deserved some others, for he proceeded to the dining room, present. ed himself with a table cloth and took a great fancy to whatever silverware there was about.

Interruption came, however, the {form of servants who loudly bell weir discovery and the disted coolie took to his hei So did a nearby Sikh constable and won.

The colic will spend the next six months telling his companions how much better the silverware was he was after, than that which he will be using in gaol,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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