Woman MasqueradingThere are also stories about how 1930 will be a good year economically. Didn't quite work out that way for many people.
As A Man Shot While
Robbing small Store
ROCHESTER, N. Y.. Dec. 31. (AP) — Masquerading as a man and accompanied by her husband and two of her six children on an early morning burglary, Mrs. Winifred Shields, 35, was fatally shot today as she fled from a store they had entered.
Her husband. James Sr.45 and two of her sons, James, jr., 17, and John, 16, returned when the woman fell and were arrested by deputy sheriffs.
“Well, I've been in the city for 30 years and I've never once regretted being a nasty, greedy, cold-hearted, avaricious money-grubber... er, Conservative!” - Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 2, Episode 11, How Not To Be Seen
Friday, January 01, 2010
News From the Past - January 1, 1930
This is kind of a sad story - it's kind of like the last one - eye catching headline, but sad story. It's from the Havre Daily News, Havre Montana.
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Is a sad story----
Was my great grandmother....
During the Great Depression people had to do whatever to get some money or food to feed the family....
As a woman you were not supposed to be out in the streetsa after dark....So seems she dressed in male attire to blend in...
The store was broken into a week before and the owner was waiting with a pistol...He shot her while she fled after the lights were turned on....
Sad story....
Rest in Peace Granny....
J.Shields
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