Burglar Was Refused Food, Breaks In

1920

Burglar Was Refused Food

Begged for "Bite" at Back Door and Upon Denial Breaks in Front

SEATTLE, Feb. 25. — Entering the front door of a residence after he had been refused assistance at the back, a daylight burglar obtained $160 Monday morning in the boldest robbery reported to the police for weeks. Mrs. J. B. Malone reported to the Ballard police station that after she and several of her neighbors had refused to aid a thirty-five-year-old man who was begging through the district she went from her residence, where she had been at work, into a front room and found that $160 had been taken from a bureau drawer. Children playing nearby told of seeing the beggar enter the front door.

—The Evening State Journal and Lincoln Daily News, Lincoln, Nebraska, February 25, 1920, page 8.