PATHETIC CASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1938, Page 11

PATHETIC CASE

FORMER LADY HEATH BEFORE COUR’T The former Lady (Mary) Heath, ex-airwoman, charged at Bow Street, London, with being drunk and disorderly was asked, “What are you?” “According to you, a gaol-bird,” she answered. Mr Harold McKenna, the magistrate: Is that what you call yourself? —That is what you have made me. Changed in her maiden name of Sophie Evans, she was remanded in custody, Mr McKenna ordering a mental report. Her age was given as 42. . Colonel S. H. White, Evans’ solicitor, mentioned that she came out of prison on February 14 after a twomonths’ term and Evans remarked: “My friends there were a murderess, a woman who ran a disorderly house, a receiver, and a woman who, made £3O a night by picking pockets.” At another stage in the proceedings she said: “When you sent me to Holloway last time I fainted there. I had to be carried to my cell. I would rather ■be fined than go to Holloway.” Mr McKenna: I expect you would. There is one thing at Holloway—you are not likely to get alcohol there.” A police officer said he saw Evans in Vine street police station, and she was unsteady on her feet. When he asked her to go away she began shouting.