So. Thayer Room Burglarized; Loss Estimated at $200

A collegiate-looking thief took two typewriters, a suitcase, an electric shaver, and a clock from a Thayer South room Thursday morning while its occupants were eating breakfast.

Jack A. Hamilton '57 and Lloyd N. Harper '57, of Thayer 23, were the victims of the $200 burglary, which took place between 8:45 and 9 a.m., almost under the eyes of a student porter cleaning the room next door.

John T. Penniston '57, of Wigglesworth, was cleaning Thayer 25 when a person who "looked like a student" entered the room and asked if anyone was home next door.

Penniston said last night that he had taken no special notice of the visitor and continued with his work. "I hardly saw him and cannot describe him, but I noticed that after he went out, he stopped before the door at 23," he said.

University Police Chief Matthew J. Toohey disclosed yesterday that two books belonging to another student in Thayer had been stolen a few minutes earlier and then were left in Room 23. "It looks like a plant to me," Toohy said. "I doubt very much if the thief was a student of the University."