SCENE IN BANK
MANAGER ACCUSED WOMAN'S LOST HANDBAG As a sequel to a scene in a bank at Salford, Lancashire, in which a woman accused the manager of stealing her handbag, Charlotte Bgden, aged 59, of Broughton, was charged at Salford with conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace. At a previous hearing, Detective-In-spector Barn field stated that the woman, who appeared in Court hatless and dressed in a thin frock with short sleeves and without stockings, for no apparent reason .went into a branch of the Westminster Bank and abused tho manager. She alleged that he had stolen her handbag and threatened to break the windows. "When 1 got to the premises,' declared the police ofiieer, "the woman was outside. A crowd had gathered, and she was shouting and swearing, threatening to break in tho windows." It was stated that the woman was married. There was some doubt as to whether she was living with her husband. . Boden was bound over for six months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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