EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1912, 4 July 1889, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.

.Avon, AND, July 1. One of the moat remarkable outrages that has ever taken place at a charitable institution in Auckland occurred on Saturday at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, in Shelly Beach road, when a man named Michael Ryan, who bid been one of the inmates, revisited the institution with a knife in his hand. The Sisters had to flea for their lives, when Ryan smashed about fifty panes of glass in the building, and did considable damage in the ohapel of the Home, He was eventually arrested. Later. Ryan, who committed the outrage at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, had been an inmate of the institution, but had to be expelled last week for insolence and Insubordination, On Siturday afternoen, when somewhat under the influence of liquor, Ryan returned to the house aud asked to see the Mother Superioress. That lady w»s in the Chapel, and Ryan was asked to wait io the parlor, but he refused to wait and opened a knife which he had in his hand, telling the sister who was spsaking to him that he was about to show them what he could do. The terrified lady immediately called out to the sisters to ran for their lives, and this they promptly did, some escaping through a side door and the windows. Ryan then rushed outside and smashed the windows of the outbuilding, the old men’s dining and sitting rooms, and nil the other windows within his reach, breaking some fifty panes of glass, tf-0 then burst open the door of the Chapel and broke some vases on tha altar and damaged seme of the candlesticks. The Mother Superioress had to escape through a window on to the roof of a lean-to. Two neighbors at length arrived and secured Ryan until tha arrival of the police. The total damage is estimated at £lllss. Ry«° was bronght up before the Court and committed for trial.