“ OVER THE BRIDGE YOU GO.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17352, 17 May 1924, Page 9

“ OVER THE BRIDGE YOU GO.”

LOVER’S QUARREL. POLICE COURT SEQUEL. SYDNEY. May 2. The sequel to an amazing occurrence on the new concrete bridge at Dandenong, Victoria, was staged at the .Dandenong Police Court this week, when Janies Melrose Thompson was fined £5 for offensive behaviour and Josephine Goodman was lined 10s for insulting words. According to the evidence, a lover’s quarrel was in progress on tho bridge on April 7. Thompson, it is alleged, had become so incensed that he threatened to end his life in the waters of the creek below, and the young woman was attempting to save him by hanging on to the ends of his tie. That was the position whop, a number of men of the Citizen Forces came on the scene. The woman welcomed their arrival, but it was stated that the man. baulked in his attempt to lose bis life for love, offered to assist the young woman to fill his heroicposition. “ Over the bridge you go ” would aptly describe his direction to her. But the military men were averse to anything of that kind, and in a struggle the man wrenched a rifle from one of the trainees. He was felled tor ins temerity, and the woman, as her sex usually does in times like that, fainted. The picture would -not have been complete, of course, without the men m ’blue, and, sure enough, two constables came on the scene. and the woman having recovered tendered a statement. Her lover was taken to the station charge was laid by the It was alleged that later the voung woman called at the station' and wanted to read the statement she had mads m the heat of the moment When permission was refused, the police stated that she told the ser ceant he was a liar and did not possess the sense of an insect. explained the charge against the woman. Romantic love affairs on the Dandenong Bridge. it- is nndp’stood. are now taboo.