Nocturnal Visitor Explores Holmes

A travelling salesman from Arlington invaded Holmes Hall, home of all Radcliffe girls remaining over the spring recess, last Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. He was apprehended by police and a watchman.

The intruder pounded on the locked front door for several minutes, then entered through a rear basement door by breaking a pane and opening it from within. He went at once to the third floor, opening and slamming every door. Mrs. Heddy Schunscher, the Holmes Housemother, rang the "wake up" bell, and the invader directed traffic on the third floor as the girls crowded to the stairways.

Eyewitnesses described him an sandy haired, 5 ft., 8 in. tall, of medium build, and good-looking. He was neatly dressed and slightly drunk, but, as Mrs. Schumacher later said, "very harmless."

Police arrested him several minutes later, still on the third floor, seated in a chair with his feet on a window sill. He identified himself as Robert Shaw, 50. His wife, when contacted, said she thought he had been in Providence at the time.

In Middlesex District Court the following morning he was charged with drunkenness and trespassing. The freepassing charge was dropped and the defendant pleaded guilty to the drunkenness charge.