SHOT FIRED

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 99, 24 March 1930, Page 10

SHOT FIRED

WOMAN DEFIES BAILIFFS. MOTHER OF FIVE CHILDREN. Two bailiffs who sought to seize come furniture in a house at Old Botany Road, AVaterloo, Sydney, the. other dav, received a hostile reception. The bailiffs informed the woman who answered their knock on the frontdoor that they had received instructions to remove some of the furniture from the house owing to arrears in rent, amounting to £l4. AVhen tho 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 the hall. They heard footsteps as someone returned to .the door, and then a woman’s voice shouted: “You’d better clear out, because I’m going to shoot through the 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. The shooting was reported to the Mascot police. Detective-Sergeant Coming and Sergeant Madden and Constables Lenahan and Cobbe visited the house. The woman opened the door when they assured her that they were police officers. After being questioned she was arrested. AVhen the house was searched a double-barrel shotgun, with the barrels still hot, was found in the room. The house reeked of fumes from the exploded powder. Subsequently the woman, who, it was stated, has live children, was charged with shooting at the bailiffs with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm. Her husband has been unemployed for some time.