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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4326, 28 March 1884, Page 3

A respectable looking young woman named JVlary Ward, whose age could pot be more than 23 or 24 years, and who has npfc hitherto made the acquaintance of the police, was arrested this afternoon charged with stealing a bundle of Crimean shirts and coloured stockings. The former are claimed by Mr Hannan, draper, Vicfeonastreet, as his property. The prisoner, who was arrested by Constable Hqbson, asserts that the goods were gjyen to her by another g>rl, whose name elje dpes , not know, An accident of a very serious character happened at an early hour this morning to a married woman named Grannity, who had been living at Mrs Longbottom's boardinghouse in Albert-street. Her cries for help between two and three o'clock this morning attracted the attention of Messrs Main {" Herald " Office) and Baxter (telegraph operator). Proceeding down Albert-street, they found the woman lying in front of Mrs Longbottom's in a pool of blood. The police having been communicated with, a cab ' was procured and the injured woman taken to the Hospital, where it was found that she had broken several bones and sustained serious injury. A shawl was discovered Ranging from the top story of the. V qfl&ri division of t ho lodging'house, and as it transpired that the lyoman had 'unsuccessfully p wded for drink In the afternoon, and had then been locked in tho room by Mrs Longbqttom, it is concluded that her cmyws for ,IIfIUOV induced her to make the attempt to escape. Probably she attempted to lower herself by tho shawl, and .finding it was not sufficiently long, she could not regain the window again.and fell, thus causing the IniuVfes referred to. On inquiry at the Hospital to-day, we learn timt the patient is doik' as well as can bo expected. Her iniuVy is not likely to prove fatal. Her left thigh bone ia broken, she has » contused wound on the temple, and she has been 1 badly shaken internally. , -": :