"PEEPING TON"
SPYING ON NURSES
[Feu United Press Association.]
INVERCARGILL, April 18, At tho Magistrate’s Court, Invercargill, John Ryan was sentenced to two years’ (reformative treatment on a charge of being found at night in tho Southland Hospital grounds. Accused made a statement to the police that at 10.30 p.m. on April 11 he climbed a cabbage tree overlooking tho nurses’ quarters. lie remained some time, and got down and climbed another. About 12.45 a.m. a lady doctor heard a rustling noise in a tree, and informed tho police. Ryan lay flat on the tree, eluding detection for a considerable time.
The police staled that there had been a considerable amount of the same sort of thing going on in Invercargill, but could not connect the accused with the other cases. Accused was not mentally or physically strong.
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Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 2
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