OLD WOMAN'S CURSE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 87, 23 January 1935, Page 3

OLD WOMAN'S CURSE.

FEARS OF NEIGHBOURS, Neighbour's fears of an old woman's ability to Jay a curse on them were put forward at Clenkenwell County Court as an argument for possession of a house (states the "Daily Telegraph"). Mrs Leone Charlotte Field asked for possession of a house in Nightingale Lane, Hornsey, occupied by F. Hurst, on the grounds of arrears of rent totalling £l7 8s 9d and because Hurst and his wife were a nuisance and annoyancd to the neighbours. Two neighbours living in the same road gave evidence. Mrs Mary Frost saidi Hurst's wife had laid a curse on her baby. Judge Earengey: You did not believe that would affect ,a baby?—l did not, but at the same time it worries me. Helena Roberts Davis said she could not go into the garden because Mrs Hurst, who was often intoxicated came muttoring round, and had cursed her husband. Witness's husband was a bus driver, and Mrs Hurst expressed the hope that he would fall off his bus and break his neck. Since then he had had a number of minor accidents and was convinced that the woman had laid a % eurso on him. The Judge: Is he so superstitious: He is a little. In these days! You don't say the muttering, of a. woman who is often intoxicated would seriously affect las j mind?—lt annoys him very much; lie ! is a Welshman. Hurst said his wife was 75 and was now unable to go into the garden By the doctor's orders she had half a bottle of port a day. Sometimes he helped -her to drink it. The Judge made an order for possession, but with no warrant to be issued while there was no renewal of the annoyance and defendant paid his current rent, a week towards arrears.