PRISON FOR LADY HEATH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19237, 1 February 1937, Page 3

PRISON FOR LADY HEATH

UNABLE TO FIND SU&ETV

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY

LONDON, Dec. 9,

Lady (Mary) Heath, the airwoman, was ordered at Bow, Street yesterday to undergo 28 days’ imprisonment in default of finding a £lO surety. She had pleaded guilty to hoingi drunk and disorderly. Her ago was given as 40, and her address as Miller street, Twickenham. It was stated that on Monday evening at Piccadilly Circus tube station Lady Heath was asked by a railway detective to leave the station if she did not wish to travel.

She replied; “I am also a police officer ami will arrest you,”

The detective, according to Mr. L, Ricketts, prosecuting, theft- noticed that she was drunk, and requested her to leave. She replied: "I shall refuse to leave, and I shall arrest you.” She took hold of the. officer’s arm.

On Lady Heath’s behalf. Mr. White, solicitor', said she was being followed by a man, and that she accosted the police-, officer for protection. The magistrate, Mr. McKenna, ordered her to, find a surety in £lO for her sobriety for six months. The alternative was a month’s imprisonment. Later in the day Mr. White said there was difficulty about Lady Heath finding a surety. .She was under a probation order made at the West London court. .She had been living in Ireland until she left, to go into a nursing home in England.

Mr. McKenna : Is there no one who will risk £lO on her behalf? Unless someone will take the responsibility, I must teach her a lesson. There is not the least doubt that Holloway will ho helpful in some wav.

The ease'was put back, and later Lady Heath, from the dock, told Mr. McKenna that she had been unable to find n surety.

Tile magistrate then intimated that his decision would stand, and that she. would undergo 28 days’ imprisonment- in default.