The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-09
DARING TRICKS OF THIEVES,
Projects by Which Clever Burglars Have Acquired Other Persons prOnertV

Property.
 That the successful burglar is
 'born, not made" may be judged from
 the report of case which recently
 came before the Berlin courts. The assistants at a large hairdresser's shop on arriving early one morning found
 a placard on the shutters bearing the inscription Closed account of sudden death" Thinking that the proprietor, l Herr Jaskowiak, had died in the night, the assistants returned home, but later in the day some of them went back to | the shop. They then found, to their astonsshment, says London Tit-Bits, theirmaster seated at his desk making a list of goods stolen from his saloon. Knowing that the assistants arrived earlys, the burglar, three in number, put up the placard in order that they might not be disturbed.
 Somewhat similar, though even more daring, was the ruse of a clever gang of international thieves which, a few years ago, robbed a firm of London goldsmiths of goods worth e12,0OO. Aware that watchman was not kept on the premises and that the principal and employees of the firm lived in out lying suburbs, the burglars waited un- til g o'clock on an evening which was both went and dark. The shop had then been closed about an hour, and the thieves, carefully made up to re- semble the men whose premises they were about to ransack, deliberately turned on a flood of light and affixed notices to the windows. Great stock taking sale! Twenty per cent. off all marked prices. Goods sacrificed to make room for new seasons stockl"
 Policemen on the beat, thinking they saw the proprietor and his assistants apparently hard at work checking their goods, suspected nothing, and the burglars safely escaped with their booty to the Continent,
 A clever burglars ruse, showing careful study of the habits of the vic- tim, was recently reported to the police It is the custom of business man who resides at Brixton and has his office in Queen Victoria street to leave hame every morning and not return until dinner. Recently his wife received an anonymous letter which informed her that her husband, instead of working in his office, frequently went to a Charing Cross tea shop accompanied by young lady. By the same post the husband received a letter which gave the information that while he was at his office his wife spent her time at a tea shop in the neighborhood of Char ing Cross.
 Husband and wife, bent on catching each other redhanded, hastened to Charing Cross and proceeded to the tea shop indicated in the anonymous let ters. Judge of their surprise when they came face to face There was mu- tual explanation. Husband and wife then came to the conclusion that some one had been playing g sjoke on them They thought no more of the matter and decided to end the day by cosy dinner before returning home When they did return to theiA house they found the place ransacked and the most valuable articles missing. The husband rushed away to lis office only to find the same confus n thera The burglars had made good h tils, both at the house and the office.
 During a round of Inspection the proprietor of hotel situated on the Grimsel Pass, Switzerland, was aston ished to see smoke issuing from one of the chimneys of the hotel, which he had carefully locked up and left for the winter months. He unlocked the door, entered and, attracted by the sound of d piano, went into one of the bed sitting rooms. There he found a young man, decked out in borrowed clothes, playing and singing. The stove was lighted, and on the tables were bottles of his best champagnes and other dellcacies The piano and a large bookcase had also been dragged into the room.
 For the last month, said the youth full burglar, on seeing the proprietor, T have been thoroughly enjoying my self. I never had such a good time in my life 1 do not mind going to prison now, and hope you will forgive ms" :" The jovial burglar put on a coat and had, took last glass of champagne, then followed the proprietor ta the ho- tel police station in the valley.