A WOMAN'S TEMPER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 May 1907, Page 4

A WOMAN'S TEMPER.

London, A ; ril 28. A constable, has died in Lew:; City luiiriiiury as Hie iu-.iiil oi lerrible injurico uilliclcu upon him with an umbrella by a v-ouiiiu. Some rem -ukidile facts were related at the inqik.-:. hist evening. Vlie victim, lieorge Won mi i.eal'e, was cinploml as a eonsmbh on the .'uint U-iiiivay Station, J.ccd,. and while acting as irglii, vutcliiiiai' on March 141 li ordered away a y.m.ig woman who was ires.-.passing on Lire promises. iie lodowod 'ler'to to Boar L i.'o, when exasperated, she violently niiew her slecl-i'rained umbrella at him. lie was curiously injured in ill" lav and tin: young woman, who gave her name as 1 Madge Dunning, aged 28. was ariestcl. On the way to the police station sh - said ; that she had often been told .it- heme (hat if she did not eonlrol her temper she would tint her way to the gailows. The constable died some time a:'!crj wards, having su lie red intense pa-'n. '! he i umbrella, broken in two. was pr.-dmvd in court, and a witness saiil it sleek in the constable's face as in a turnip. 'The medical evidence showed that there were two wounds, and eventually the palient had laryngytis. and 'Decame comatose. Th" inquest w-i" adjourned for a week for further medical evidence. Ivu-lier in the day Dunning was brought before the court on a charge of manslaughter, and remanded. Tn reply to the charge she said, "Cod forbid Unit I did it maliciously."