WOMAN AS BURGLAR

Evening Star, Issue 21216, 24 September 1932, Page 13

WOMAN AS BURGLAR

THREE YEARS IK PRISON A London woman, thirty-seven years of age, was recently found guilty of burglary at a flat at Brixton, and stealing goods valued at £6O. A detective said that since 1911 the woman had been sixteen times convicted of theft. Her husband was very respectable and hard working. The woman was an inveterate drinker and the associate of well known-criminals. S|r Herbert Wilberforce, the deputy chairman: It seems strange that a respectable, hard-working husband could have no influence over his wife.The husband, who was called at his wife’s request, said that she was a clean, hard-working woman. They had been married seventeen years. Sir Herbert (to the husband): I know nowadays that the control a husband has over a wife is non-exis-tent. You are to be pitied. After the accused had been sentenced to three years’ penal servitude she pointed to someone in the court, and shouted: “I will kill you when I come out.”