IN THE NURSES’ HOME.

Otago Witness, Issue 3123, 28 January 1914, Page 6

IN THE NURSES’ HOME.

AUCKLAND, January 22.

A call for help was received at the Central police station at a quarter past 1 this morning from the Nurses’ Residential Club in Upper Queen street. Immediately a constable was sent to the house, and he picked up another constable on the way. Arrived there, they found an undersized youth, named Francis Patrick Silva, aged about 18 years, sitting en deshabille in one of the upstairs rooms, and held a prisoner by a ring of nurses armed with walking sticks. The constables were informed that about one o’clock some of the inmates were aroused by the sound of a man in the house, and, further investigations being made, they discovered that they could deal with the situation themselves till the police came. Several nurses armed themselves with walking sticks, snapped on the lights, and dared the intruder, who was in a bedroom, to move until they gave word. He was still bailed up thus when 'the police came. Silva stated that he took his boots off Outside the house, and climbed up the verandah to a balcony, through the wdndow of which he got into the house. His explanation of why he went into the place suggested that his mental condition is not normal, and when he appeared at the police court this morning on a charge of breaking and entering he w r as remanded till next Wednesday for medical observation.