THREW HERSELF OUT OF WINDOW

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 113, 6 February 1941, Page 8

THREW HERSELF OUT OF WINDOW

Young Woman Injured

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND. February 5.

While detectives were searching her room tonight, a young woman threw herself through an open window on the second story of a house in Shortland Street, and fell nearly 20 feet on to the path below, injuring her back and suffering hurts which necessitated her removal to the Auckland hospital. Her condition is not serious.

According to the available facts, the young woman, who is aged 2.1, was being questioned concerning the theft of certain articles from a city shop during tlx* past three weeks. As is customary in such eases the police matron was present while two detectives searched her room. Before they could prevent it she suddenly ran to the window and flung herself out. Iler cries roused the household from their evening meal, and when they went to the side of the house they found her lying on the garden path apparently seriously hurt. An ambulance took her to hospital. She narrowly escaped death, since a large rock immediately below her window was only a few inches from where her head lay on the path.

For some time past Mr. Alfred Hill’s cantata, "Hinenioa,” has been rehearsed by a group of Maori singers in Rotorua, it is their ambition to present the cantata in opera form, witli costumes and scenery.