“LOVED GANGSTER”
WHO DID NOT REFORM WOMAN WHO WILL WAIT Flaxen-haired, 21-year-old Violet Jones, ex-dance professional of High road, Tottenham, fell in love with a gang leader and eloped. She thought she could reform him. Now her lover, named Brooks—deccribed by the police as head pf a Harringay N., crime gang—is in prison, and she herself was bound over at Middlesex Sessions, with Alfred Ernest Whale, aged 23. on a charge of attempting to steal a car. This is her story, as she told It:— “Until about three months ago I had never known a criminal, and then 1 fell in love. Against the frantic advice of my mother and brothers, I eloped with Brooks, and went to live in a furnished room in Seymour road, Harringay. He has a fascinating personc> J i t y. “I - thought he intended to give up crime. I believed I could reform him For days I would not let him out of the house in case he should meet Ins bad companions. . „ ■ “One night he went out for five minutes—and got into trouble that has landed him in prison for nine months. “When he was sentenced I was left without money. For three days I went without food. I did not feel I could face my mother. Gossip of neighbours drove me from Seymour road “ I met Whale at a dance hall—and I blame my present trouble on that. Girls are often in great danger there. In that setting one does not realise the ‘ adventure ’ someone proposes may lead to prison." „ , . Violet Jones—or Mrs Brooks as she is now known—showed scars on her firms made when she was struck with a poker during the escapade which resulted in her appearance in the dock. “ I SHALL WATT . . .”
“Trying to keep all this from my mother was the hardest part of all. But she found out. and it nearly broke her heart. I met her on the steps of the court. ... . „ , . “Brooks will be free at Christmas —and I am living for that time. I shall meet him at the prison gates. I know he means to go straight and tries hard, but he is weak. ... Police gave both the girl and Whale previous £jood chsrncters. It wbs st3ted that the car they tried to steal was to have been used by the gang for criminal purposes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 14
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