THEFT OF MONEY.
NURSES’ HOME ENTERED
AUCKLAND, May 23
“Sorry, wrong room!” The speaker was a- fair-liaired young man who opened the door, of a bedroom in one ol the nurses’ cottages at St. Helen’s Hospital early on Sunday evening. He made, that remark, slammed the door, and vanished, startled by die 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 her surprise, and the intruder, raced-off, escaping in the direction oi St. James Street, at die rear of the nurses’ home. When a search was made it was found that the room of another nurse, Sister Ward, had been ransacked and that in addition to ? £l in money, some silk clothing had been stolen. The thief evidently knew the run of the institution.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 149, 24 May 1928, Page 6
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