On Monday, the burglar who broke into Colonel Arthur Paget's
house in Belgra,ve Square a few nights ago, was charged at the Westminster Police-Court, and committed for trial at the Old Bailey. It appeared in evidence that this prisoner, named Thurgar, alias Knot, has struck out a new line in the business of cracksman. Since August last, when he came out of prison, he has rented a safe at the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit, in order, no doubt, to avoid any unpleasant association with receivers of stolen goods. When searched by the police, the safe was found empty ; yet no doubt, but for the accident of Colonel Paget's appearance at the moment when Thurgar was taking Mrs. Paget's jewels, it would now contain plenty of articles of value. There is something very amusing in the picture of the apparently respectable middle-class gentleman who rents a safe and is constantly depositing in it heavy packages, but who is in reality a noted burglar. The writers of melodrama have never dared to draw so impossible a picture as this ; and yet, after all, they might with perfect propriety have brought the millionaire and Bill Sikes together in the corridor of the Safe Deposit.
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