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What are
they like-
these bounders
who nip in
and nick things?
THESE
ANGUS MCGILL'S
Mainly for Men
He will certainly have used the joini fairly thoroughly before making his break-in. He will have studied the house or flat catatully and will probably have had a good lock at you. He will have found out when you are likely to be out. And he will have spotted the easiest way of getting in.
The sensible thing is to make life as dificult for him as you possibly can.
£10,
Experis tell me that most Londoners could double their deferices for lem thun which seems as good a small investment as you are ever likely to make.
You should first put yourself in the burglar's alioes, prowl
are fruitful to take a vicious pleasure in de round the place a bit and think
..days for villains, days of triumph for the keener minds of the underworld.
struction.
Ilis activities every year, Lost were 13 per
pre Increasing your there cent. more bur- glaries in London than the yeur before and this year
one
The nation has lost Its Goya London household in 75 can ex- en have lost my ummbrella
pect to be broken into, So it again.
is as well to know something about this character.
We are displeased, the nation and 1. I seems tur us
that things have come
to a pretty pass when chap can't leave his Goya on an case and his umbrella in an umbrella stand without some bounder nipping in unut nicking it.
But that's bundlere for
you.
In the first place he is likely to be a very young man. Half the arrests for serious crime are of men under 21. He may be highly skilled in the crafts of his curious profession but he is rarely very intelligent.
He is egotistical, vain and
Last year they nipped into tends to feel isointed in the com- 39,000 London himes and nick-munity. And, though he needs
cd stuff worth more then
£2,000,000.
Of course a lot of these 39,000 householders were just asking for it. If they didn't actually leave their doors and windows open, then they had locks on them that a trainee burglar of no natural talent could open in boxing gloves,
HAVOC
They cleverly hid front dour keys under plant pots and tuld everyone they were on holiday by forgetting to step the papera and the milk.
Burglars thought they had ine natures,
to be courageous and very often
and
is, he spends much of his work- ing life in a blue funk. Hir is a very nerve-rocking job.
The rank-and-Ble burglar chooses ordinary houses flats and relies on making a modest haul and getting out fast. In 60 per cent of raceat cuses the value
stolen of property was under £20 and the maximum time for average job is dve minutes.
on
He repeats these quick, silent raids at frequent intervals with great success.
not
dis-
The successful burglar is beyond assuming a light guise. He merges with the The burglar, by and large crowd. He is usually quite well doesn't have a nice nature, Not dressed ond always has a only does he deprive you of plausible excuse for being half- things you are rather fond of way up your Are escape. like your money, but họ leaves even halt way through your havoc behind him, Ho
back bedrocen window.
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how you would get in if you were him.
Look at the locks on the win- dows. the akylight,
the front and back doors,
Ordinary spring locks on the front door aren't enough. Bur- glars find them easy. You need a mortice dead-lock, too,
And there is no point in fastening your windows with those old-fashioned bar catches, You can open them with a pen- knife yourself if ever you get locked out.
Go to really good locksmitha -to a firm like Chubbs, who are forever devising new ways of plaguing the burglar.
MADDENING
The new Chubb locks are ex- traordinarily formidable, They can't be forced, picked, breached with a Jemmy, cut through coaxed open with mica.
or
They will send a busy burglar,
alraight to the windows-b Chubbs have some extremely effective locks for these, too.
Indeed, windows can now be left open and still be securely locked, which burglars must And maddening. The space is big enough for the air to get in but too small for them.
If you must keep large sums
INVESTIGATING A SINISTER TREND
HE MIGHT CHOOSE TO LOOK LIKE THIS....
"I have come to read the moter," he will say, standing in
the wreckage of your bedroom.
The secret wallsafe, in which you keep 10s. in silver and a pair of
odd cufflinks, will be open and empty and you will know at once he is a fraud.
A LIGHT
DISGUISE
IS
The North Thomas Gas Board SOMETIMES
mover sends men to read meters at 3 a.m. The avertime would be ruinous.
HE MIGHT CHOOSE TO LOOK LIKE THIS....
You will find tho dosk in which you keep your collection of cigaretto cards and rare spent matches has been broken open and will observo a pair of patent leather shoes with feet in them at the bottom of your wardrobe.
"Sarry old bean," he will say as you fish him out. "Thought it was Boodles." You will know at once he's a fraud. No member of
ASSUMED... Boodles has colled anyong old bean
of money in the house you burglar what used to be called waistcoat for should spend some of it on a a nasty turn. wall safe. You can get one for
for 30 years.
A
£23. They will ty. They will sell you hal- bio be happy to sell you bul- berds and crossbows and ball- as little as £5 3s, a nice little
let-proof trousers and u bul- Bring cannon. Many London thing the size of a single brick being equipped with crafty little
flats are now let-proof bowler.
They will also sell you which can be craftily hidden spyholes in the door wide- Or enil on Cogsweli and Har- full suit or 18th-century RT- behind your own personal Gaya, angle lens that shows you just rison in Piccadily. I you mour for answering the door or Then there are firms like who is ringing the bell. And the have the right' sort of permits fate
night in. Burgots, the burglar alarm police recommend a chain un they will arm you to the teeth, They cost about £300 and prople. They will criss-cross the door, particularly If your A three-inch mortar, sir? Cez-
are mirly uncomfortable, You your home with invisible rays wife is a bit nervous.
tainly, sir!
may prefer to be burgled,
and stud it with pressure pads. This allows her to open. the These alarms are slient and go door a short way and to shut straight through to the pollee It again if she does not ilke station and before the burglar what she sees. This may occa- knows it he is surrounded, sionally be hard
Burgot alarms caught 204 men friends. In the last three months alone. If you really have a thing Other Arms sell alarms that about security you can pop into set the bells of hell ringing all the Wilkinson Sword Company ruund his head and give the in Pall Mall for a bullet-proof
ARMOUR
on your German's in Edgware rood will do the same job for you only rather more picturesque
What do they
they think
they're looking for?
TAND beside the sock buyers is that they always go
counter of
menswear shop,
for the nylon any don't want to darning. any
ones. They go back to
day, anywhere, and you ing was
(Note for the kiddies: darn-
D quaint te-male
will observe a curious ac-tiv-ity which died out
little pantomime.
in
the mid-twen-ti-eth century,
It was replaced by tele-vls-
A woman customer enters in.) She picks up a pair of cocks,
Men, who remember with turns them over in her hands, nostalgla. how comfortable wool admires the colour or the socks used to be, sometimes buy pattern. Then, inking cach a pair on the sly. They are sock in tum--and often hav men with nice, even-tempered ing to undo the sticky paper throw thlage stick to nylon.
wives. Men with wives who which joing them together-- she plunges her hand inside. Siratching her fingers - wida
she looks closely. Then she WINE SNOB
might buy them.
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word to looking for. It doesn't tell you say for my Chateau Roubaud a thing about a sock."
becxumonwleoly told him 12 Stiil, a good sock salesman was only B. a bottle. I notice will never come between a sock
he drinks it though. and a customer - and wornest will go on shoving their batids in and stretching their fingers sa long as we go on wearing the things They LIKE it, bless their lowered hals.
Another thing that rock sales- men know about women sock.
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