This week's Sepia Saturday prompt picture reminded me of a story my grandmother Kathleen told about her parents returning home one evening and finding a burglar in the house.
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| Musee McCord Museum : Alexander Ramsay's Paint Store, Recollet Street, Montreal, QC, 1868. The left hand image is a detail from the big picture. |
My father also retold the story in his biography of Arthur Murray Cudmore (1870-1951), part of Chapter 7 of
For the Love of the Land: The History of the Cudmore Family, compiled by Elsie Ritchie in 2000.
A man broke in [at home] but was disturbed by the family returning. The intruder took refuge under a bed on the upper floor, but his hiding place could be seen from the doorway because of a mirror. "Arthur, get your gun!" urged his wife. "You can't shoot a man when he's under a bed", was the reply. Rather than await the outcome of the debate, the burglar jumped through the window, slid down a connecting roof and made his escape. The few pieces he had taken were recovered later.
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| The house of my great grandparents at 64 Pennington Terrace North Adelaide. Photograph from Google Streetview. |
The incident was reported in the local newspaper, though the story was a little bit different from my father's account.
Six years later there was another burglary from my great grandparents' house.
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