A WOMAN’S “TEMPER.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2086, 22 May 1907, Page 1

A WOMAN’S “TEMPER.”

POLICE CONSTABLE KILLED BY AN UMBRELLA.

London, April 28.—A constable lias died in Leeds City Infirmary as the result of terrible injuries inflicted upon him with qn umbrella by a woman. Some remarkable facts wore related at the inquest, The unfortunate victim, George William Leafe,was employed as a constable on the Joint Railway station, Leeds, and while acting as nightwatchman on March 14th ,ordered! away a young woman who was trespassing on the premises.

He followed her to Boar Lane, when, exasperated, she violently threw her steel-frained umbrella at ,bjin. He was seriously injured in the face, and the young woman,, who gave her name as Madge Dunning, aged 28, was arrested. On the way to the police station she stated that she had often been told at home that if she did not control her temper she would find her way to the gallows.

The constable died some time afterwards in great pain. The umbrella, broken in two, was produced in court, and a witness said it stuck in the constable’s face as in a turnip. The medical evidence showed that there were two wounds, and eventually the patient had laryngitis, and became comatose;.

The inquest was adjourned for - a week for further medical evidence.

Earlier in the day Dunning was brought before the magistrates on a charge of manslaughter and fiemanded. In reply to the charge she said, “God forbid that I did it maliciously.’’