The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-11-03
issued: 1927-02-17
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note: r *******-***********•*-**■**************-*************** Cantonese Arc NEARING SHANGHAI Set Page . *AM2T Si'i,u,,«"« VOL.25 NELSON, B. C, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1927 No. 247 Speaker Puts RESOURCES MOTION OUT See Page 2 CROW SNOW-BOUND; HOME BURNS, FERNIE )EATH TOLL RISES, CALIFORNIA; FLOODS NOW I HOUSES IH I All Caaes Inmates Awaken •and the Intruder Decamps ) ARTICLES ARE REPORTED MISSING s 'Operations Extend From the Bluff to Lakeside Park Aa enterprising housebreaker broke te five Nel.on houses between the lire of 1 and " yesterday morning, cording to reports made by thc .luaholders concerned to Chief of lie Thomas H. Long. The burglar, io wan Interrupted In his work at ah of tho five houses,- and got tiling for hla pains, Is described by a people Into whose houses he broke a youngish man, dirty looking and Drlng a cap and overcoat. While arrest haa yet been made, Chief »ng is working on th. Case, and is telling tha men ho suspects. Matta with Bluff The burglar mado his first entry at allace Dav|a' houee on the bluff ut o'clock. Mr. Davis was wakened by a nolae the housebreaker made, and UM out. Th. Intruder fled without going. He then broke into X. B. Bradley's aldeaaa 4* Front atreet, opposite the ispltal. In this case he wakened Mrs. ■adley. wit. called out. Again the Rlar flat without ceremony, about 1:16 ha awakened Mrs. J. otort»n, who heard liim wandering .»t her houae on Oak street, gne, 9, ln asking who was there, scared tha Intruder. till tho burglar was optimistic. out 2:30 Guy Browell, who lives th. corner of Anderson nnd Pine wakened when he heard neons wandering about In his house, a. queallon. "Who's there?" waa the • again for the burglar to fade im th. aceno. Th. final attempt was made at H. Hlnltt's house on Third strr.t Mr, nitt waked up to see a stranger •Iking matches at Ills bedroom door. Ken Mr. Hinitt spoke, the burglar Ipped out of thu back door and van- ad in the distance. Xoumb »ot LockM In each caae the housebreaker had diffic…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0403116
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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