GIRL'S ESCAPADE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18991, 16 April 1936, Page 11

GIRL'S ESCAPADE

PISTOL FIRED PROM CAR CAMBRIDGE INCIDENT LONDON, March 6. A girl who fired a revolver from a car in the streets "for fun" was fined a total of £lO at Cambridge Police Court yesterday. She was Diana Carlos Clarke, independent, of Rudgwiek, Sussex. A fine of £8 was imposed for having a firearm without a certificate, and one of £2 for firing it wantonly on the public, highway. Charles Arnold, a roadsweeper, said he was in King's parade looking| at a car standing outside a cafe, when a girl shouted to him from the cafe window: '.'Keep away from the car." Without warning, she then flrcd a revolver at him. Inspector Jacob said that after a report had been received that a young woman was driving round the town firing off a revolver, the car was stopped. In a statement to the police Clarke said she saw the revolver in a friend's rooms and took it away. Later on, in a restaurant, she fired it out of the window and also in a garage to imitate a backfire. A- party afterwards went for a ride, and she fired from the window of the car "for fun." The cartridges she used were blank. The chairman of the bench told Clarke that she had laid herself open to a fine of £SO, or three months' imprisonment. Georgo Sinclair Broderick, an tin-' dorgraduate of Trinity College, was fined £;T for possessing ft firearm without a certificate. He said it was given him by a former tutor as a war relic; he thought that it was obsolete and unusable. The revolver was ordered to be confiscated.