CHINESE WOMAN ARRESTED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3167, 18 August 1917, Page 6

CHINESE WOMAN ARRESTED

ON AN UNUSUAL 'CHARGE. (Bv .TclegraDh-Snccial CorresDondent.) Wanganui, August l<. The arrest of a Chinese woman at an: early hour this morning under extraordinary circumstances caused a sensation to-day. It appears that Ngan Kee and Co., fruiterers in a large way at the corner of the Avenue and Guyton Street, have been subjected to considerable lasses lately by the mysterious breaking of large gas globes under the verandah of their ehop. Every'time new globes wore put on they were smashed. . The police then took a hand .to gate matters, and a little after one o'clock, this morning the police on : watch observed a figure quietly creeping along theAvenue to the shop in question. One bigglobe was smashed, and just as the person was about to damage another with an iron bar the police flashed a searchlight in the face of Hie culprit, and_ discovered it was the wife of an_oppositinn fruiterer a short distance up the Avenue. When they attempted to arrest her <=ue gave vent to some weird screams, and violently struggled against' capture. She tried her hardest tolnte the constable.*, but they eventually landed her in gaol. She was remanded to August 22, bail being allowed in two sureties of .ESO.