DESPERATE WOMAN ARRESTED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 78, 11 March 1931, Page 5

DESPERATE WOMAN ARRESTED

TRIED TO LEAP FROM WINDOW, SYDNEY, March 7. Arrested on a charge of shoplifting yesterday, an English woman, aged 4U, attempted to throw herself from a window at the detective office. Detectives seized her just in time. Jiiarner, it is alleged, the woman had tried to swaliow a pen nib while sne was being questioned in the ofiice of Woolworth's store in Pitt Street. a pathetic feature of the case is the fact that the woman's three daughters, aged ib, 11 and eight, are alleged to have been stealing goods in YVooiworths and placing the articles m their mother's bag. Mrs. Garuiuer, inspector at Woolworth's, is stated to have seen the children, ail of whom were welldressed, taking articles from the tables and putting them in the woman's bag. Mrs. Garcuner took mother and children to the oliice, and while she was being questioned, tlie woman, becoming hysterical, picked up a nib and tried to swallow it. Constable Martin, of the C. 1.8. stall, took the party, all crying bitterly, to the station. The mother, detained in a waiting room, suddenly rushed for the open window, which looked down on to Central Lane, 40 feet below. Two detectives seized her and she burst into tears. She was later charged ana locked up. In her bag were ten £1 notes. The children were cared for by policewomen.