WOMAN WITH HONEY

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 February 1937, Page 8

WOMAN WITH HONEY

DOWNING STREET VISIT.

LONDON, January 4.

A woman who is alleged to have threatened to break a window at No. 10, Downing Street, appeared at Bow Street Police Court yesterday. She is Miss Edwina Aston Thompson, 33, secretary, of Kildare Gardens, Bays, water, and the charge against her was of wilfully obstructng a police officer in tjie execution of his duty. P.c. Hinde said he saw Miss Thomp-. son in Downing Street. She had a jar of honey with her, and when he asked her what she intended to do she replied, “Break a window at No. 10.” Miss Thompson said that while living in America she appealed for police protection. Instead of protecting her they put her in a psychopathic ward presumably for observation. She had been trying to induce the British Foreign Office to take up the case with a view to obtaining compensation. She believed it had been dealt with only by subordinates, and it was because she wanted it taken out of their hands and referred straight to Mr Anthony Eden that she made her protest. An officer of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard stated that on December 24 Miss Thompson broke a window at the American Embassy and was bound over at Westminster Court, on condition that,she went into hospital. She was discharged after a week.

Miss Thompson .was remanded until to-day and instructions were given lor her relatives to be communicated with.