The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-23 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERIES.

A young women. named Ellen Mitchell, 21 yearn of us,
described u domesUc servant, yes brought up et the
ltuchetter Police-court. on Tuesday morning, on a chugs
of hermit stolen £7O from the house of John Warburton,
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heweeellier, Gorton, on the evening of Tburedey, the 7th
October, or early on the morning of the following day.
fiba.eras tlneharrod with 'hens front various tredermen.

)ear,..-wa; Alpo dunned in

or.ropany with her datiAter, the ahnv,nomort prioon..r.
Prior to October the G.,rden police had 1111COir0 I

Won of several robberies frono'sbope in the neighbourhood.
Early this mouth, having heard something concernina tbe
younger prisoner, which he damned suspicious, P.C. Linn
tread her to her residence, and took her into oust sly on
Lb. them of steelier a chair. Afterwards, on the 3rd
mt., he gearohed th• hume, arid found in • box na bed-
room/14 in gold, £lsn in Irirlit bank note*, and • nu...int
for • deposit of £l3O in the Nstinnal Bank at I).inmore,
dated the 13th of Juin Is.t. He also ivered • puree,
which Mr. and M.N. Werburion identled so one which
heti been stolen fr •iu them nt the time the £7O wan tak-n,
and found the other erti len mentioned shove. Triv
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prisoners came dime front Ireland to Gor'on in July las',
and from inquiries which bad been made lir the p ilice ii
&portend that previous to buying Ireland the younger
prisoner was in the employment of Mr. J. W. Drown,
m.gl4trato residing a Mount Kelly, County Galway.
Her father and mother w, re, at the the late *be left
Mr. Brown's service, inmates in the Dunmore work.
hoses, County Galway ; but a few days after the left
Ireland the mother left the workhouse. and rams
to England to join her dattebter, leaving hor bus-
tard .1111 1, the +or khnu or. Mr. John Warbu4 in, in his
evidence, said the £7O which wax stolen trim his bete,
was kept in a small box placed in • cloths., hot in the front
bedroom. The hnom It •d be n entered by weans of the
bedroom windo•, shich could he rood's' got at by motto.
log • wall near, anti elepping tin • lodge near the fanlight,
The money, be ielievert. was taken on the night of the
7 11, during the Int, real between the closing of the hones
and the time he went bed. Of the 4,770 taken, about .CBO
Was in gold and the rorit in @dyer. He had seen the pet
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11,1101 Mitche I in hue berme two or three times, having
',eyed her with honor. Evideric wee given with
to other charges mere. rod Arainst the prieonors, who wi re
then committed for trial at the missions —ln condor to •
formal charge of stealing .C7O from Mr. Warbiirtnn.r. the
younger prisoner accounted fur the Molter found .11 the
blouse where ate resided by saving that ..bout foot' pare
ego her mother gave her £lOO, which elm haul reeo vel
from her fads. r. That money •he lodged in ta Ca tr-
reagh Bank. In flepterither, DO. hi r aunt died and nit
her £173. £l5O of which the derewited in the 11 rim
bank. She drew the merest on the *nouns in Jolt last,
awl had also withdrawn the amount inie fed in her net..
In the Csetlerrouh b ink.—Slr Jelin I. Mont.-II remanded
the prisoners, and refe.e.l to allow bad.. the case of the
younger prisoner.