Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-01-19 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STRANGE CAREER.  At the Westminster Police-court, Sarah Warhurat, the Oldham girl who was found destitute in a cellar at Albert-gate, Knightsbridge, at Christmas-time, has been brought up before Mr. d'Eyneourt, on remand from the Kensington Workhouse Infirmary, looking in greatly improved health, and neatly attired. The circumstances under which the defendant was found have evoked an astonishing amount of sympathy from the charitable, and letters from all parts of England have been received at the court, at the institution where the girl was, and also by the police both in London and the country, containing subscriptions and offers of clothing and a home. As an instance of the extraordinary intermit which the can has excited, it was stated that one post brought 95 letters to the , Kensington Infirmary. Mr. Itutherglen, the clerk to the Kensington Board of Guardians, and Inspector Kemp, of the B division of police, now attended before Mr. I d'Eyncourt and detailed the results of the inquiries ! made into the girls antecedent/. It was stated on I the report Of Mr. Charles Hodgkinson, the chief con- I stable of Oldham, Mr. Superintendent Hewitt, of Hurst, and other officers, that the girl is 19 years of age, and that her mother died 12 years ago and her father three. Her aunt, living at Mossley, near Oldham, then took charge of her, but she ran away three times, the last occasion being one Saturday night in , June, 1887, since which time her relations have never seen her. She tramped to London, and in October, I 1887, being found destitute and in a pitiable condition, she was relieved by a missionary of the Midnight Gospel Mission, and was sent to a Home at , Barnet. From there she was transferred to • good situation ; but she behaved so badly that in December of the same year her employer telegraphed to the charity which had befriended her to say that if she was not fetched away she would be handed over ' to the police. She was taken away, and lodged in Lady Aberdeen's Home, Regent's-park, but in April last year she ran away from there, and her next appearance was when she was seen in Kensington Gardens, de;ected. destitute, and homeless. Thomas Bell, the park-keeper there, having companion on her, and believing that she intended to carry out her threat of committing suicide, took her home to his wife, and they most charitably kept her and fed her for nearly three months while she was ' out of work. The man also endeavoured to get her a situation at Crosse and Black well's, but there was no evidence that she went there, and she left her benefactors I without the least intimation and in the most ungrateful manner. Possibly she worked during the summer, but last August a lady discovered her home. less and destitute on the Chelsea Embankment, and she then said that the park-keener had befriended her, but she could not go back to him. Mr. d'Eyncourt aaid that on the lint occasion the girl alleged that she had left Oldham because of being assaulted by her cousin. Was that true? Inspector Kemp said it was altogether denied, as also was her statement that a strike of mill-hands affected her. She was in work as a weaver when she last ran away from Oldham, ' and she was a good weaver and reeler, but would not stop any length of time at her work. Her sisters, who were married and living at Oldham, at first stated that they would have nothing more to do with hen; but since a subscription had been started in the , , district—a sum of money being placed in the hands! of the chief constable—her relations had manifested , an interest in her, and a sudden desire to have her back and give her another chance. Mr. Butherglen said a married lady of the highest respectability , now, knowing everything of the girl's career, adhered ; to an offer she made at first Cu take the girl into I her service. If his worship would allow the girl I to be given over to this lady, the guardians, hoping she was repentant as ahe professed to be, would supply her with a good clock of clothe.. The balance of the money subscribed would be returned to the donors, and that not asked for would be appli,l to the excellent purpose of a Samaritan fund to assist poor deserving girls in a way the Poor-law could not recognise. Mr. d'Eyncourt, addressing Warburst, who cried bitterly, said he was afraid she was , a very bad and almost hopeless girl. A great deal more than she deserved had been done for her, and in allowing her to go to ths situation offered her so kindly he truded she would turn over anew leaf and behave herself. He should require her to enter into her recognisances to appear before him again if called upon, and if she did not go on well she might be brought up and punished. His Worship gave the I park-keeper Bell £3 to reimburse him to some small extent for the expense. he had incurred in maintaining the girl, and the remainder of the fund sent to this Court for her is held in reserve. Mr. d'Eyncourt thinking that perhaps emigration will, after all, Kthe best for her. The girl had a hysterical fit on leaving the Court.  Now YOnK mashers, of the more select species, now carry a moustache comb and brush of gold and diamonds. The comb is about one and a half inches In length, and scarcely half an inch wide, is made of solid gold, and hinged in such a way that the teeth shut into the handle like a raver blade in its sheath, and it costs from 8 dole, to 14 doh.. The bnish is the same length shaped like a hat brush/ with soft white bristles and a solid gold back net with precious scones. Such a brush costa 75 dots.,• 100 dale., or even 150 dole. Now YORK has horse cars, cable cars, eledrical cars, and steam cars on elevated made, and is still complaining of want of sufficient means of transit.