WOMAN DRESSED AS A MAN.
- A young woman who, when arrested, was dressed in men’s clothes, appeared at the North London Police Court.
Rose Smith (22) was charged with being in a garden in Queen’s Road, Finsbury Park, for an unlawful purpose. When she was found she had a bottle of paraffin oil in her possession
and remarked, “I am doing this for an adventure.” In t uirt the girl said: “I was going to set fire to a man’s house. I got over the back wall and I went into the garden. I sat on the wall there and thought what to do. I thought it was a wrong thing. ' . , . “Then I changed my mmd, and just as I was going home they caught me.” The girl was remanded for medical examination.
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Shannon News, 18 June 1926, Page 3
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133WOMAN DRESSED AS A MAN. Shannon News, 18 June 1926, Page 3
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