South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 31 October 1942

Wayward Wombwell Girl

Attempts Suicide at 16

At the Barnsley Juvenile Court on Tuesday a 16-year-old Wombwell girl machinist was charged with attempting to commit suicide. The police also suggested that she was a person in need of care and protection.

Mrs. Tighe (Probation Officer) said the case had been before the Court and was adjourned, but she was sorry to say there had not been the slightest improvement in the girl’s behaviour. She was a girl of unstable habits, but a suitable home had been found in Nottingham, where the authorities were prepared to take her for six months’ training.

Mr. F A. Brown said the girl’s parents agreed that this would be in the girl’s best interests.

In placing the girl on probation for twelve months, and ordering the payment of costs, the Chairman (Mr. W. Humphries) said a condition of the probation was that the girl should enter the training home for six months.