COURT SENSATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 422, 13 June 1922, Page 6

COURT SENSATION.

■£> LADY AND CUINKSE. MISSII.F.S AND I.ANCCACK. ROCK HAMPTON, dune 2. A sensation occurred in the Koekliumpton Police Court yesterday morning when a voting woman. Annie May Scanlon, alia> Kdney. who is said to have Spanish Mood in her veins, appeared on a eluirge of having wilfully destroyed three panes ot glass, valued at £l. lite properly ol a Chinaman, Tommy Queii. I In the interval of waiting aroused, with painful candour, described to the yalleiy her opinion of several policemen piesent, and when Tommy Oucn appeared she made a dash out of the dock to try and gel at him. When Tummy Qnen got into the box he and accused bad several heated and lurid arguments, in which lie alleged that j aciu-ed went to his collage, threw slopes, and got fur her lite. The Chinaman was leaning over the table signing depositions, when accused passed on her wav to the witness box, and she gram hed a leg of a derelict chair, and with the exclamation : “Take llml,” hit linn over the head. She put plenty of pep into the Mow, as the chair leg broke. The astonished ( liiiiainan lei. oui a yell, and as accused stepped up into the box he made a rush ai her. and gave her a vigorous the same time exclaiming; “Take that. ’ Senior-Sergeant lienzies tit once asked that accused be dealt with under section 40 of the .Justices Act. and defendant was lined £5 or seven days, and the destruction case was, adjourned until to-morrow. Accused mil oui of the box, fire flashing Worn her eves. As she passed the press box she grabbed a large inkwell Irom under the nose of an astounded pressman, and lifted ll arm high. Tommy sensed danger was coining, and he made a wild sprint tor the door, dead healing with the pressman who got o(V the mark very quickly. Dpi,,, police grabbed accused just in tune i prevent die inkwell being thrown, l hen ! pandemonium was lei loose. Accused yelled ; and other policemen joined m the tray, i ami the contents of the inkwell went all lover the court'. After a great struggle, acidised was overpowered and taken away. There was great excitement in the gallery.