GIRL AND POLICE

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1932, Page 3

GIRL AND POLICE

ASSISTANCE FOR PRISONER. “MELODRAMA” SAYS THE S.M. ; c MELBOURNE, August 4. ; Circumstances savburing of melodrama were' described when Nellie Harringtoh, of Fitzroy; was citafg'eu a> the' Fitzroy Court wita having obstructed Constable Drummond in the eXecuL

tion, of his duty. " '' t ,'J The charge arose out of an .attempted arrest of David Lawrene. Cai-feedgc,' vvhp, twicO eluded; the police after having escaped from custody and was .subsequently ...recaptured ■„ at a house ,in Gollmgn ooa.' r , •1 Constable Drummond said that at ' ; |j. : il{f' : P,mf on July 17 he .saw Cartlecjge standing oil the ''yerandah ,of a house; ,in : St George's f I'tzfdyj, ; ‘ With 7 ' Hai-r ingtont'' : Car tied ge was Warithii r qhi . waijairE from custody. ItVhen he Was three; jreet 'anjaj(. from the house, the , ccnstable said, he drew his revolver ,ahd. Called- pn Cartledgelio ’surreiider. '. -*!"(Jartledge stood. ' still. . Ccnstabit Drummohti said, that, as lie'opened, tlfr gate Harrington threw- her ’arms around his (Constable Drummond’s) shoulders. Cariedge took advantage of .this diversion to enter the house and’slam .the 1 door .behind him. Constable Drummond .said that he kept,,watch,in Nicholson Street, and a few minutes jliater saw 'Cartledge coming down from , a roof info, .the street. Harrington called Put to Cnrtledge, ‘‘Go backj. The police are, wf iflhg- for, you.’,! Cartledge climbed oye the roofs. . ' . . .

In the witness-box, Harrington said that she had known. Cartledge . for about two years. She denied .either haying thrown,' her arms round the constable or having., called out to warn Cartledge.

' Sergeant .Murphy: You have . been shielding Cartledge? •, f Harrington : -No. ; j ’ Mr Brojvn, S.M.; in convicting ITarA rington, said , that she must learr that these things did not always end as they did in the pictures. The case savoured cf melodrama. Cartledge might have been very seriously inj -reel 'through her actions. He should have been: left to get out. of his own difficulties. Thd police might very well Wave brought the more serious charge of having aided a prisoner to escape, but he thought that the police had treated Miss Harrington very fairly.

Harrington was fined £s, in default imprisonment for a month.