CRIME OF JEALOUSY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

CRIME OF JEALOUSY

Woman Threw Acid at Former Friend

" r j\MIS is a ease of a woman whose jealousy simply got the better of her." That explanation was put forward by her counsel, Mr Frederick Levy, after Alice Gertrude Harvey, age 51, a widow, of Hast Ham, London, had pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to throwing carbolic acid on William Wood with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Collapse in Dock On being sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment she collapsed, and was carried front the court, where, during an air-raid warning, she had been given a special seat, as the dock .is situated beneath a glass dome. It was stated that Mrs. liarvey bad been friendly for about eight years with Wood. They had spent a holiday at the same seaside resort about live years ago. Later ho wanted to break ofl the friendship. On the morning of August 20 he was crossing a street when she took a tin

ii<jlll her pocket and threw some liquid over him. An eye was hurt, but on the whole 11is iujurie.s were not serious. On being arrested she said: ''Yes I did it. I intended to drink the rest of the stuff myself." .Mr. Levy said that Wood was an insurance agent, who called to collect premiums. .Mrs. Harvey's husband had died and she and Wood became friends, hut in 1 '.!•>: they parted, and later came together again. Then lie took up with another woman. SAFETY UNDER THE STAIRS Tn ono London residential area a bomb demolished three houses. Although there were seven people in them—l hree of these people were under the stairs —no one was hurt. In the next street a bomb fell in the hack of one home, seriously damaging the house and two others adjoining. I'Jcven people ill these three houses were sheltering under the stairs, and not one of them was injured.