JUMP FROM WINDOW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 9 February 1933, Page 10

JUMP FROM WINDOW.

SURPRISING SEQUEL. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 8. An incident on November 3, when Veronica Martha McKellfget, a dressmaker, of New Plymouth, astonished people in Currie Street by jumping out of a second storey window and subsequently being rescued from the verandah roof by a fire brigade ladder, had a surprising sequel in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when James Sullivan, labourer, was charged with causing bodily harm. Miss McKelliget, who is still in hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg, sustained in dropping from the window, was accompanied to Court by a uniformed nurse and in the course of evidence said she escaped through the window because of a fright she got when accused suddenly produced a razor case. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Giving evidence, Miss McKelliget spoke of three years’ association with accused during which he paid her constant attention. Marriage was spoken of, but witness did not accept an engagement ring. On November 3 he invited her out to tea, but she declined and they had tea together in her workroom. Suddenly Sullivan jumped from the tea table' and put his hand on the key of the door. Witness retired through a curtain, but he followed, drawing a razor case from his pocket. She made for the window on seeing the razor case and jumped out. She did not hear Sullivan any ill-will and was sorry the case had come to Court. Constable Lincoln described how Sullivan arrived at the police station on the evening of November 3 very agitated and exclaiming: “A woman has just jumped out of a window. I did it,” added Sullivan. “It was all my fault. I killed her. Lock me up. I give myself in charge. I’m to blame. Y"ou can do what you like with me.”