SHOT FIRED

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 March 1930, Page 12

SHOT FIRED

. WOMAN DEFIES BAILIFFS. SYDNEY, March 14. Two bailiffs who sought to seize some furniture in a house in Old Botany-road, Waterloo, yesterday received a hostile reception. The bailiffs informed the woman who answered their knock on the front door that they had received instruc tions to remove some of the furniture from the house owing to arrears in rent, amounting to £l4. When the woman demurred they produced the necessary order, and allowed her to read it.

As she finished reading the document the woman threw it in the bailiffs’ faces and quickly slammed the door. “You go away while you are safe," she shouted from the hall. The bailiffs stood on the verandah debating what course they should adopt, and they heard the woman walk down tho hall. They heard footsteps as someone returned to the door, and then a woman’s voice shouted: “You’d betto rclear out, because I’m going to shoot through tho door in a minute.” A moment, later a loud report was heard, and pellets penetrated the door and passed close to the bailiffs. They immediately went away. Tho shooting was reported to the Mascot police. Detective-sergeant Comans and Sergeant Madden and Constables Lenahan and Coble visited the house. The woman opened the door when they assured her that they were police officers. After being questioned she was arrested.

When the house was searched a double-barrel shotgun, with the barrels still hot, was found in a room. The house reeked of fumes from the axploded powder. Subsequently the woman, who, it was stated, has five children, was charged with shooting at the bailffs with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm. Her husband has been unem ployed for some time.