IN NURSES' BEDROOM.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15312, 13 August 1923, Page 4

IN NURSES' BEDROOM.

YOUNG MAN'S NOCTURNAL VISIT.

"THOUGHT HE WAS HOME." DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.Prowling about in a state of alcoholic oblivion, a young man named Harold Barrett set off last night from a bach near the hospital where he had been drinking most of the evening, and apparently unconscious or careless of what he did, found himself in a bedroom in the Haeala private hospital, where lie disturbed the slumbers of two of the nurses, who, startled on seeing him. screamed and somebody else in the house rang for the police. Constable McLeod later found Barrett wandering aimlessly along Anglesea Street, where, on searching him he found an empty culex bottle in his waistcoat pocket. This was the link that connected him with the hospital intrusion, for such a bottle was missing from one of the nurse's manicure ' Defendant, in pleading guilty to beins drunk, an idle and disorderly person, and with the theft of the cutex bottle, was very hazy as to the whole of the circumstances. . He remembered drinking some beer —a great quantity in fact. After that, he did not know what happened. He must have thought, he said, he was going into his "diggings" when he entered the hospital premises, but lie remembered nothing about it. • Defendant was fined 10s for bcin? drunk, was convicted and discharged for being an idle and.disorderly person and was placed on probation and prohibited for 12 months on the charge of stealing the cutex bottle.