The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-05 00:00:00

LIFE IN LONDON.

At the Marlhorougn-streat police-court, on Tuesday,
Agnes Moore, 37, well-dressed, was charged before Mr.
Newton with stealing • florin. A gentleman stated that
the prisoner, who was with • companion, accosted him in
Orge-etreet, Ilanover-ernare, about II o'clock on Thurs-
day night, telling him that she resided in a handsome
home to which she pointed, but had left her puree at home,
and, having forgotten the latch-key, she could not let her-
self in without observation. She was in want of a glass
of lemonade. No house, however, was open, and the
gentleman said he would have lent her sixpence if he had
any smaller change thane florin, which he produced. She
snatched the florin out of his hand, and as she refused to
return it, he gave her into custody. The prisoner, who
spoke with an Irish accent, said she was with a friend, a
respectable lady like herself. The complainant accosted
them, and being repulsed made a false charge against her.
The friend who was with her would corroborate her state-
ruent. Mrs. Vernon, of 60, Drummondatreet, said she was
walking with her friend, the prisoner, when the gentle-
man who perferred the charge spoke to them, but was
Indignantly repulsed. Mr. Newton asked the witness,
who was dressed in mourning, what she was and how she
gained her living. The witness said she was a widow
living on • small independence. Vine, the deputy gaoler,
asked to be allowed to make • statement. Having
got into the witness-box, he said he had known the
prisoner and the witness, the widow, for about five years.
They belonged to • gang of women known as the " lien
and Chickens." The "hen," an old woman, went about
with the "chickens "—four women of middle age and of
superior dress and deportment. Their plan was to walk
about the West-end, principally in Sackville-street,
Charles-street, and lianoversquare, and to accost gentle-
men as they came from their club, at night, representing
themselves as officers widows or officers wives, their
husbands being from home. They would take any gentle-
man who was weak enough to listen to them to a fine
house, which they pretended was their residence: but
before going in they would declare they saw a light in one
of the bedrooms and that their husbands had returned.
They would then propose to adjourn to some place for •
short time until they could enter the house, and this icing
acceded to they would contrive to borrow a sovereign to
get wine, with which they iiimushately decamped. The
complaints by gentlemen against the "lien and Chickens"
were so frequent that a loan had been placed on special
duty to watch their movementa. The prisoner had been
in custody before. Mr. Newton told the gentleman it
would only be giving him trinible to send the case to •
jury, as no convicuon was likely to follow. He would
discharge the prisoner; but as lie felt no doubt whatever
about the true character of the prisoner and the widow,
be would warn both of them if they made their appear-
ance at that Court again they would be dealt with
miverely.

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