The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-07

stance, the operations of a pickpocket on the top of an omnibus in Tottenham court road, London, were clearly seen
 by a policeman sitting behind him.
 This was the case, although the man
 was covered by newspaper. The policeman saw the theft reflected i1| the shop windows passed by the vehicle, and as a result the pickpocket ob- tained six months imprisonment
 A very ingenious trick employed by
 poachers is that of leaving an end of candle burning in a saucer of water in the bedroom. This usuually is so arranged that the candle will sputter
 out at about 10 o'clock, just as if it had
 been extinguished, and the man retires for the night. This ruse is often em- ployed by poachers who discover that
 the keepers are watching She house for
 signs of the poachars leaving. In vesy many cases the game keeper does not
 discover that the candle could go out without any human agency.
 A very curious course was adopted by Burnley man who had illicitly entered a dwelling house while the inmates Wol'. shopping. He was seen leaving !he yard Ey a woman who lived across the way. The man, seeing that he was noticed, leaned on the wall with sur rrising monchalance, and looked up in- to the sky. as though reeing if there were any signs of an abatement of a F@aVy shower The woman asked what he wanted, but '.he housebreaker totally | disregarded the question. He simply remarked, Its raining hard" How ever, he was arrested some little time after.
 Houses have been broken into in broad 1 daylight in Shrewsbury during the ab- senco of lhe householders. A con-
 siderable amount of jewelry and money was taken from which two men were
 seen to leave by the front door. They
 were clever enough to raise their hat-,
 as though lowing to somebody at the window of the house.
 | Sometimes he police are not so clever as they mtg5t be. Four men deter
 mined to rob Putnam tavern a short 1 time ago, and the police laid trap for them. At night 8 dectective in- spe@.or aui constable occupied the house, but absurd as it may seem, th2y forgot to turn out the lights. T1e bur
 glars duly arrived at 2 o'clock, but they l found the place ablaze with lights and
 also noticed one of the watchers peer ling out of t.Se front door. Therefore 1 the wise burglars withdrew, and de-
 cided not 70 proceed further fin the ad-
 venture. The men returned, however,
 8 week later and this time they were ieaptured .qa .a. 1 Tine police wished to arrest two nan
 who were lying in the hold of barge l off Brentford. Accordingly the officers
 asked the men to come up and be arrested but the theives, instead of complying, returned the cordial counter ] invitation to the police to come down and join them" Na uraIy, this was not easy, for the sergeant commanding ithe bSeiegers had recourse to a very lsimple stratagem. He noticed that the
 men below had kindled fire, so he told ! one of them to fetch him a tile, The
 sergeant then placed the tile carefully over the barge's funnel and the invest 1 ing force simply stood around carelessly | in order to await developments. The
 suspects stayed below until they were I half suffocated by smoke, when they had to stumble up on deck and sur
 render to the grinning besiegers. i There are two men who are we'll known to the police who are clever ex-
 rert ladder theives. They were recent i ly arrested and placed in custody at
 Winchester. Their method Is to select
 a house by day and make arrangements
 and see that there is a ladder about In the evening they return to the house
 when the inhabitants are a. dinner
 Then they take the ladder to the back Fpart of the premises and raise it to d Ffirst-1oor window Their practice is al-
 ways to work from the top part of a
 house. When they have made these arrangements, the next thing they do l is to go downstairs, wedge the door where the residents are having dinner, 1 lock themselves in the room upstairs
 and ransack it. Sometimes they work
 with rope ladders which they make
 themselves.
 There have been several examples
 lately of criminals run to earth simply
 by leaving finger prints upon the glass
 of windows. By means of finger prints
 the police were able to trace the burg lars who stole e5,00O worth of jewelry
 from Conduit street, Regent street The
 arrest in this case was effected in a
 very clever manner As daylight was appearing a milkman was seen going
 down the street where the criminals l lived. He was attired in the usual
 glazed hat, and carried the usual money
 pouch and milk bucket with cans
 around the side. When he arrived at l the door of the criminals house he
 shouted, "Milk, oh!" but the minute
 the door was opened he rushed in and
 four other milkmen, who were disguis-
 ed detectives, followed him. Together
 the detectives mounted the stairway to
 the bedroom.
 In each case the man was found in bed, and in one or two instances he was
 asleep, but was awakened by a hand on
 his shoulder, with the intimation that
 he was under arrest
 l It may be the case before long that
 burglars will not merely have to wear gloves, but they will have to abandon wearing trousers. A man was tried at Longton some time ago for breaking into the Old Roebuck inn. The only