Pajama Clad Girls Flee Harvard Man Perched Upon Cabot Balcony

Nightied Cabot Hall Radcliffe girls were startled just before one o'clock this morning by a masculine intruder poised outside the third floor ledge. Later identified after arrest by Central Square police as a Harvard student, he was held over night for drunkenness.

According to Cabot residents, a coated figure appeared on the thin floor ledge of the building about an hour after midnight. After an abusive tirade he dared the girls to call the police.

Acting on his advice, the girls put in a call to police headquarters, and shortly thereafter five officers arrived in a two-way radio car and a patrol wagon.

They quickly took the prowler in two and returned to the station. The arresting police were uncertain as to how the student managed to negotiate the climb.

In his condition, he won't be much help, in telling us himself." remarked one, as the wagon rolled off.

What the motive of the man was also remained undetermined, although the constabulary concluded that "he probably was up there to visit his girl friend."

When the police pulled up in their two vehicles the intruder was still poised precariously on the ledge. They shouted to him not be attempt to jump, and he responded incoherently.

Before they could intervene he slid down a projecting pillar to the ground, but seemed to be unjust.

The desk sergeant at Central Square said he probably would appear before Cambridge magistrates court today.