DESPERATE GIRL

Grey River Argus, 6 February 1941, Page 4

DESPERATE GIRL

Jumps from Second Storey WHEN DETECTIVES SEARCH HER ROOM AUCKLAND, February 5. While detectives were searching her room to-night, a young woman threw herself through an open window in the second storey of a hous"' in Shortland Street, and she 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 th e young woman, who is 21 J ears of age, was being questioned concerning the theft of certain from a city shop during the past three weeks. As is customary in such cases, a police matron was prr sent while two detectives searched her room.

Before they could prevent it, the woman suddenly ran to the window and flung herself out. Her cHaroused the household from then evening meal, and when they went to the side of the house, they found her lying on th e .' garden path, apparently seriously hurt. An ambulance took her to the hospital. Sho narrowly escaped death, since a large rock, immediately below her window was only a few inches from where her head lay on the path.