"DANCOMANIA"
DOMESTIC'S OBSESSION LONDON, Nov. 18. "You silly little ass: you don't know what you are talking about," said a Hull magistrate when Emmn Higgins, a 20-year-old domestic, asked for imprisonment instead of reformatory trentment after pleading guilty to stealing jewellery and clothing. The police said she was "dancing mad," aud had lost 50 situations because she stole finery to wear at dnnce halls. Finnllv she was released on two years' probation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 12
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72"DANCOMANIA" Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 12
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