"SORRY, WRONG ROOM."
ROBBERY AT ST. HELENS.
BURGLAR RANSACKS BEDROOM. STARTLED BY A NURSE. "Sorry, wrong room." The speaker was a fair-haired young man who opened the door of a bedroom in one of the nurse's cottages at St. Helens Hospital early on Sunday evening. He made that remark, slammed the door and vanished, startled by the fact that the room was not empty, as at the moment Sister O'Sullivan was reading in bed. The time was shortly before six o'clock and the other nurses had gone to tea. Sister O'Sullivan raised a hue and cry as soon as she recovered from the surprise, and the intruder raced off, escaping in the direction of St. James Street at the rear of the nurses' home.
When search was made it was found that the room of another nurse, Sister Ward, had been ransacked, and that in addition to £1 in money some silk clothing had been stolen.
The thief evidently knew the run of the institution, many people in tha locality setting their clocks by the gongs which are rung for meals. On Sunday morning an electric light in a passageway behind the building was found broken, and it is now believed that it was interfered with in order to facilitate a raid on the building.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1928, Page 9
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