WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 215, 30 January 1913, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by " Eileen.") womenlTburglars XLIKHATinXSTMAT A (SUIT, BUOKIi ,[ INTO A (IOI'SL. |> London, December 13. ' ( Won.cn accused of the crime of burgi. irv hav* occupied the attention of the enduring the week. In one ,n- ; stance Jasmin Marcus, seven een. ta loiis was indicted before JiuTge Kentou • for' liurplarv in the dwolhnghouse of Mr OeorgeLlovd Williams. 8 Saeky.lle ; street. W.. and stealing a coat and other property. In the early hours of the -24 th ult. P.C. Groves saw the prisonci come out of Sackville street into ifio street She was carrying a large pack- ,*«.' ' He asked her what it contruned, and she said. "My lady's things. He was not satisfied, and took her to the police station, where the package was found to contain a coat and other articles stolen from the premises of the monitor, which had been burglariously entered Ihronsh a basement window. The prisoner said the package was pushed into her hands by a Jewess. The j iurv found the prisoner guilty of receiv- J in*" the property, knowing it has been stolen, and Judge Rentoul sentenced her to six months' imprisonment in the second division. ( Tn another case four persons supposed , to have been concerned in the daylight robbery at the flat of Mr. Ernest Schiff in Dover street. Piccadilly, recently, appeared at Marlborough street Police Court. The prisoners, Walter Laud (fortv). Harry Roberts (forty), Cissie Roberts (twentv-sevenh all of Marchmont street. W.C., and William Mayze (forty), qf Verona street. Battersea, arc charged with breaking and entering the flat and stealing thirteen diamond buttons, four gold tie-pins, and other t pro-! perty, worth £2OO. The three male prisoners are described as porters. Detective Leach gave evidence of the arrest of Harry Roberts on the platform at Russell Square tube station. He told him that he was arrested oil suspicion of being concerned with a woman, Cissie Wilkes, who was bound over at the London sessions in July for breaking and entering flats in Kensington. Haverstock I Hill and Sloane Square, doing to Marchmont street witness saw the female prisoner, whom Roberts d?senbed as his wife. She gave her name as Cissie Wilkes. In her bedroom witness found a jemmy and other housebreaking implements, and a suit case containing£4o or £SO worth of the jewellery stolen from the Dover street flat, with a "police

pawn list" describing some of the jewel lerv.

When questioned. Harry Roberts said: ">\\c. is innocent. Don't take her. She only did what I told her. She took the blame for the last jobs. She is a good girl. She only came up from Yorkshire on Monday, t sent for her. The stuff came from "20. Dover street. She did not go into the flat, but remained outside while I did the job." Laud was brought in, witness continued, and at first said Roberts was his brother, but afterwards said they were not brothers, although people thought they were. At the police station Mayze said his wife worked at the flat as a charwoman. He had often been there to see her. Roberts had given him £l,O for his "corner."

The prisoners were remanded. CAPTURING SOCIETY ACTRESS AXD PEER'S SOX. London, January la. Another Gaiety actress has joined the ranks of the aristocracy by her marriage with a peer's son. The wedding was celebrated in a London suburb to-day, the bride being Miss Olive May, whose family surname is Mectyard, and the bridegroom Lord Victor William Paget, heir to the Marquis of Anglesey. The ceremony was kept secret, and did not therefore attract the crowd of society people it would otherwise have done. The service was a full choral one, and closed with the hymn. "0 Perfect Love." The bride was dressed with studied simplicity, wearing only a white cashmere gown, with a brown hat and a sable stole. The Marquis of Anglesey, who was present, and signed the register, has promised bis son and daughter-in-law an annual allowance of £IOOO each. 'LADIES ONLY." They are having a little difficulty on the English railroads. Some few years ago a number of indignant spinsters said that it was a foul outrage that women should be required to travel in the same compartments with men, and although the railroad officials knew well that nothing short of a staff of police could compel women to travel anywhere else they acceded to the demand, and at- j tachod the "ladies only" label to the re-1 quisite number of compartments. But I new comes a new complication, and this time the complaint is from the men. Traffic has increased enormously, the trains are crowded, and the strap-hanger has become an institution. But why. ask the men. should we hang to straps: I why should we be packed like herrings , in a barrel, while the compartments re- I served for women are practically empty? ' For that is the fact. The women will j not travel in the compartments reserved for them. They would rather form a part of a perspiring multitude in the general compartments than use the accommodation that has been especially reserved for them. Xow if a man ventures to invade a "ladies only" compartment he is speedily reminded of his transgression by the stern hand of authority. But the woman may invade the smoker, and does invade it, and has even been known to demand the extinction of all pipes and cigars. An experienced conductor, whose name is wisely concealed, says that women like to avoid "the frigid sjlence of a ladies only' compartment, where the window is adjusted according to the scowls of the occupants." for theppeasa liter company to bo found anion- n,en. "Women enjov playing the part, of a listener to the conversation in a mens or mixed compartment, jind their vanity i„ notified bv the little oo.irtw.es that are paid to them. - Aignna.it.