Blandford Weekly News. — 1889-03-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SEQUEL TO THE ACTRESS'S ESCAPADE.  At the Middlesex Sessions, Harriet Muir, 28, other- I wise Ettie M`Kie, described as an actress and artist's model, has been indicted for stealing various articles of wearing apparel, to the value of £.3 10s., the property of a musician named George Johnson, living at liattersea. The young woman, who a short time ago attempted to enlist at St. George's Barracks, pleaded not guilty.—Johnoon said he first met prisoner at Pimlico, and after visiting a public-house they went to her lodgings. In the morning when he awoke he found the young woman gone, and the whole of his clothes, with the exceptio9 of an under vest, taken away. The prisoner left her own clothes, but of course he could not wear them. (Laughter.) He went to the door and called to the landlady, who went to his brother-iu-law's and got him some clothes. Hisown clothes were returned to him by order.—Mrs. Elizabeth Howell said the prisoner had lodged in her house for about five weeks. She said she was an artist's model, and witness was amazed when she heard Johnson call out to her from the room. Ile told her he could not see her as he was not presentable. (Laughter.) He remained in bed while she went to his brother's and got him some clothes. Witness afterwards received a letter from the accused saying that she would return the clothes, and pay what little amount she had left unpaid. —Detective Walters, who apprehended the prisoner on the present charge, said she told him that she thought it would be a good opportunity of getting out of the country.—Mr. Hutton, for the defence, contended that when the young woman took John- , son's clothes she had no intention to permanently deprive him of them, or she would not two days afterwards have written the letter to her landlady announcing her intention of returning the clothes.— The jury at once acquitted the accused. Mr. Chamberlain has contributed £5O towards the funds of the National Lifeboat Institution. A domestic servant named Jane Macdowell has been sentenced to death at the county Antrim Assizes, she having been found guilty of the murder of her infant child in Belfast in December. The jury strongly recommended her to mercy. The execution has been fixed for the 25th April. There has just expired at Rye an old sailor named James Bayley, who had saved no fewer than 26 ' lives, frequently at the imminent risk of his own. On one occasion he kept three men afloat in Sunderland Harbour until they were rescued, and ,he twice saved the occupants of Deal boats which had capsized off the South Foreland, including a nephew of Lord Beam well.  James White, of Dublin, an auctioneer at pawnorokers' sales, having made a present of a revolver to a friend, Martin Jones, of Phibsborough, the latter, under the impression that the revolver was unloaded, pulled the trigger and shot White dead, the bullet entering his heart. Jones is in custody. White leaves a large family and was well known. A circular by the directors of the Provincial Bank. Dublin, to the shareholders states that the total loss incurred by the recent frauds amounts to £23,600. To meet this they purpose taking £20,600 from the reserve fund, which, with £3,000, the amount of the guarantee fund, will cover the lefalcations, and thus Leave the earnings of the bank utact.