The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-12-11 00:00:00

aceonnt from the cashbox in the bar. He saw the prisoner
he all the dfferosnee in the teasel between 500 gentleman
behind the bar, and be treated her with a glees of port I sent ny from 50e electoral &stride of the country and
wine. She conversed with him, and he thought she Was ntlemen emnine on an the reeresntatives of the teet-
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perfectly sober. He received six .110 Honk of England Inc. the asseeletinns, awl the ancient histories of
notes from prosecutor on the 7th of September, and they bon-moths such as that wh'ch he hai the honour to address
were psid into the Wilts stool Dorset Rank the same day. believer' the time was yet far distant
Mr. Thomas Polten Kahl he kept the London tap and vrhen the hornet))s weed' ahrmhmi inelectoraidigtrfrta
we, a driver for Mr. Nosbery. On 11 dm,lav ternoen, Bet Khmer] nnfortioneiely reform en In that (Bretton. he
between 2 and 3. he went to the Glebe Hotel with a tipfirmly believed that the borough of Cdtristehureb woold
and drove the prisoner to the Wit. and Dime Bank. toe one of threw which wooll still continue to preserve its
Prisoner went into the hank, after which he drove her separate existenee—hrneerst because in illefranchisement
back to the Globe. He then noticed that Prisoner the selection wee 11, m tie by cempetitive examination
appeared to he Grew, anti she attempted ta get out the and those who had returned the hut men would he ere-
wrong side of the fly. A few lei elite, after he found a served as portions of the ennstitnencies. (Loud cheers).
handful of gold on the cushion of thecaleand handed it to They might be sure that in such a eau is that the
, Mrs. Reeve, borough that returned Sir 11. Drummend Wolff moist
, Mime Annie Conn. eister to Mrs. Reeve, said she was at look with considerable composure upon the storm raging
I the Globe on Saturday "net-noon. She was in the bar around us. (Hear).
I parlour when her sister eellel nut and said her watch and
I chain were gene. IPrboner, who wee in the same room. SHILSBORNE.
bawled her the bag of money, and paid she wood.' throw
it at her if she did not take it. Prisoner requeeted her to YISITNAN Ti?SPITAL—We are informed that Mr. John
, show her to the W.C., and she did no. She unlocked the Peenv, formerly the proprietor of the gherborne Journal.
the
door for her and retained the key, as the door closed with his sent a cheque for £lOO to the 'secretary towards
• eyeing. She met prisoner in the passage when she Endowment Fund of this hospital.
returned. The constable came about ten minutes after-
wards.
P.C. Reeks said he went to the Globe between three and
four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and found the
prisoner in the bar-parlour. Mr. Reeve accused her of
the robbery, and she got excited and said she had never
stole anything from anybody in her life. Prneecut or said
the bag and money were his, but prisoner said the money
WWI hers—she had been to the hark and changed a
chorine. Mr. Reeve said he shooed give her in charge, sod
he (witness) told her she would have to go with him. She
slid; "Who are you," and he tole her he wee a constable
lin plain door's,. Prisoner asked to xpeak to him private'''.
and Mr. Reeve left the room and cloned the door.
Prisoner then said "1 Saw that servant girl go juts, now
to the water closet: she wag carrying semethine with
I and you had better go and look and see what it is." lie
opened the door awl asked prneecutor, in the prisoner's
presence, if the clout was locked. He said it Was, and
that he had the key. Ile left the prisoner in other
people's charge whilst he went with prosecut or to the
closet. Prosecutor unlocked the door, and in a lollop pail
standing in the corner he found a watch, three chains, a
pencil ease, and a key. He put the articles in his porket,
and, with assistsnce, got the prisoner out of the house and
into the cab at the door, and took her to the poolicestetioe.
Previoue to the prisoner'. toeing searched by the female
searcher he told her she had better turn out her pickets.
Prisoner did so, and the key produced fell out of her
Pocket. Prisoner said, "Take care of that; that belongs
to my carpet hag in Exeter." He afterwards found the
key fitted a drawer in a cheet of drawers; in Mrs. Reeve's
bedroom. When prieoner wee charged she sail the
money was her own, and she should he able to prove it
Prisoner said nothing erne the trinket, He afterwaris
received the boxes, and found in one of them £2 104. in
golol and other money amounting to Ills. 31.—Cross-
examined by prisoner She might have said her carpet
bag wee at Bridport. He was positive she said else had
changed a ehestmo ; she did not gay notes.
Charles Edward It obinson, a mariner, said he was at
the Globe between three and four on Saturday afternoon,
and assisted to take prisoner to the poliee-station. He
was alone with prisoner for *little while at the police
station, and she said to him, "Welt, my dear, I don't
mind confessing to you. I took the money what I haol at
the Globe, but the rest of the money is down the cleset,
and the other things in the closet" She repeatedly asked
him whether the money haol been foetid. When the key
fell out of her pocket she soil it belonged too her carpet
bag at Bridport.—ln answer to a question as to whether
the prisoner was sober, witness said she was "about
half-and-half."
Mr. George Harrieon, cashier to the National Provincial
Bank, said prosecutor brought him a £lOO Kink of EnlL-
land note on the 7th of September, and he chane•l it for
eight £lO notes and £2O in gold. The number of the notes
were 35001 to 30`194 inclusive and the prefix letter and
number were 166.
Mr. Henry It. Sedgfield, manager of the Wilts and
and Dorset Bank, said prisoner came to the bank about a
quarter to three on Saturday afternoon and changed two
£lO Bank of England notes for gold. The number of the
notes were :IMP; and 30te57, and they were dated the 11th
of January, 11177. Prisoner appeared too have been drink-
ing a little, bet she was sober enotigh to know what she
was doing. —Croes-examined by the prisoner: Shoo asked
him if he had received an advice for her from the Countess
I of Wahlegraye, awl be told her "N.'
Mrs. Amelia Andrews, of S. Norfolk-terrace, Bourne-
mouth, said a fortnight ago last Saturday prisoner book a
bedroom for herself at her bowie, and on the following
Monday she took a bedroom awl sitting-room for the
daughter of the Duchess of Pemberton to come there and
he confined. She kept the rooms for a fortnight, and lost
the letting of them in censequenee. She gave prisoner
her card, and she enclosed it with a note in an envelope.,
which she addreeseol to the Duchess of Pemberton at
Hyde Park. She (witnees) posted the letter herself.
Prisoner stayed with her for a fortnight, and the only
money she saw in her possession wax a florin. She WAS
always saying she expected money from different places
and a P. 0.0. from Bridport. At one time prisoner toll
her the Duchess wee at the Bath Hotel, and that she had
been there end dressee her. This was on Thursday awl
she went to the hotel. lout the Dilateso was not there.
She also enquired at other hotels. an-1 hound there Was no
each &person as the Duchies of Pemberton. Prisoner told
her the sense day that the Duchers'e daughter WM very

and she wont 11, there that evening. Prisoner never
[...it hero penny. She paid for the muslin she now had
round her ne.k, lent her and found her in 'Aging
and fowl. Prisoner read to her what purported to he a
t legrani answering her letter, lint she turned down the
top part of it, and she saw that it was in pris.mer's hand.
writing. This aroused her suspicions The telegram
form woo pink awl printed. Prisoner called the Duehess's
husband " Sir Harry," and she thought this strange'
Prisoner showed her a letter, which she also believed to be
in her handwriting.
Mr. Trevanion said apartments were also taken at 12.
Suffolk-terrace, Bournemouth, by prisoner for the
Duchess's daughter.
The magistrates committed prisoner for trial at the next
borough quarter sessions.