AN EMPTY HUSK

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 198, 10 November 1934, Page 5

AN EMPTY HUSK

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h DEFENCE AND OFFENCE wf)lpN .use :edged\ Weapons

J| fy*,i London, November ,1. Iwbr gasfts in' -whioh .wpmen- used edg[ed •instruments,' one in defence oil properly". ThV other in" the commission of crime,, are reported by the Daily Kin.e' Tr-ueman, a pretty Lambeth shob for a long time missed tenF shillings a <.day'., from the till in the! tobacco ancL'confectionery shop which'- sls" nuinaged. for her widowed mot!hart" I 'She concealed herself under thej.coupter with a safety razor bladein khd -waited .two hours in b-cramped! position, until a man steiltlf/ly. opened the door. lite the,'mat t 0 avoid rinaaifg-YtW sliod bell, extended his nana mjv< the .counter artd grasped the till 'handle, swnefeup'on Miss Trueman sla^h6^ ( his \ knuckles. He snatched bacji 'tils; hand and ■ bolted, but the wOdndi /enable-'d' tile police to identify and :arres't him.. U '■■ an assistant in a Paifs beauty parlour/ has' confessed to |hu^cH"g,, M adame J €or]non, aged 84, which she -in her sleeve. She asked|;sadame ,Cormon; to display BOjh^^welldjy'.liridistabbed her to Lpfjjo'frie decamped with £350 in casfelftd.j'*wVliery r wlii'h ; s he handed t o oit& of the •in'stiga.tor:- of the crime. Shfe life's- .tw'b 'lovers', both •' Corsicaiis. i o". .■' '. *-'■■■'■■':