PURSUES BY A WOMAN

Evening Star, Issue 19583, 15 June 1927, Page 13

PURSUES BY A WOMAN

HOUSEBREAKER CAUGHT AFTER EXCITING CHASE. Romford Bench listened to a graphic story of how a local woman, Airs Jessie Jacobs, of Greston Alawneys road, Romford, was responsible for the capture of three alleged housebreakers. Return ing homo from shopping, she saw a man cross her drawing room, and, looking through the letter box, saw two otim' - men. She ran round to the back and raised the alarm, but the men rushed down the garden, across _ some .allotments, and along the arterial road j Airs Jacobs told a tradesman what was happening, and hurried after tinmen. Sh« proved almost as fleet ol foot as thov were, and when a motor car, with several builders’_ men, came up, she joined them and assisted to capture two of the men. The other boarded a bus, but the shouts caused him to jump oil again. He was then chased by a qj’cliTc. and after a struggle was also caught i The detained men. Leonard James Arthur Dnffin, and John G. Nash, have been committed for trial on the charge of breaking into Airs Jacobs’s house, and also of entering a house at Enfield and receiving jewellery.