JUMPED THROUGH WINDOW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24525, 6 February 1941, Page 6

JUMPED THROUGH WINDOW

YOUNG WOMAN’S ACTION INCIDENT DURING POLICE SEARCH (Per United Pbess Association) AUCKLAND, Feb. 5. While detectives were, searching her room to-night a young woman threw herself through an open window on the second storey of a house in Shortland street and fell nearly 20 feet on to the path below, injuring her back and suffering other injuries, which necessitated her removal to the Auckland Hospital. Her condition is not serious.

According to the available facts,: the young woman; who is aged 21, was being questioned concerning the theft of certain articles from a city shop during the past three weeks, As is customary fn such cases, the police matron was present while two detectives searched her room. Before they could prevent, it. she suddenly , ran to the window and flung herself out Her cries roused the household from their evening meal, and when, they went to the side of the house they found her lying on the garden path apparently seriously hurt. An .ambulance took her to the'hospital. She narrowly escaped death, since a large rock immediately below her window was only a few inches from where her head lay on the path.