Page:Waylaid by Wireless - Balmer - 1909.djvu/35

Rh according to the report made to the police, the considerable sum of money which they—very carelessly and incautiously, it must be confessed—carried with them chiefly in bank notes, was taken from their sleeping room in a manner which. ..

"Without useless speculation upon the exact manner in which this particular haul was made," the column ran rapidly on, "or without hazarding a guess of the criminal in this single instance, the Morning News desires to remind our county authorities again that it is high time for them to take more competent measures than have yet been taken to secure the safety of visitors in our English hotels and inns.

"Within the past three weeks—the beginning of which period marked the first arrival of our American summer visitors—the News has had occasion to chronicle in these columns no less than eleven similar outrages against Americans stopping in our inns which have had to be brought to the notice of our authorities.

17