The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-04-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXTRAORDINARY STORY.  A domestic servant named Charlotte Goode was charged before the Marylelioue ?..,.-.-istrates, London, on Monday, with stealing 01 L. • -i.d i; st from 22, Upper Baker-street, Regeut's Park, plate, linen, and other articles, to the video of £lO, the property of Miss Frances Downie, her mistress.—The prosecutrix said the prisoner had been in her service since the sth of last mouth. The last time she SAW the prisoner was on Sunday week, about nine p.m., when she allowed her to go to bed, as she said she was not I well. Shortly afterwards it was fountl that she ' was missing from the house, also the rFoperty. Her cap, with some marks of blood and some locks of hair, were discovered in Um passage near the door. Prisoner was taken into custody yesterday on her discharge from Poplar Infirmary, where she had been under treatment. On the way to the station she told en extraordinary story. She said two men —one d irk and the other fair—came up to her as she was cleaning the brass at tho front door, and the former tied a handkerchief over her mouth, and when she tried to pull it off, the other man struck her on the cheek. Showing a revolver, they threatened to shoot her if she raised an alarm. Having made her tell - them where her bedroom was, they fetched her hat and jacket, and also brought out a bag "full of something." They took her to a house at Poplar, and loft her in a room there for several days. Hardly knowing what she did, she went out and bought rat poison, with which she attempted suicide. The men told her their Dame was Johnson. She did not cry out when they Look her along the street, as she " was afraid. Detective - Inspector Robson said the , blood-stains had 130011 analysed liy a medical! man, who believed that they consisted of blood ' and water. He should have expected to find pure blood, and not blood dilated with water, if an assault had been committed.—Miss Downie, , recalled, said she did not behests the extraordinary story which the prisoner had told.—On the application of Inspector Robson, the prisoner was remanded.  MB Gso. WINGFIELD, Hutments, Fleetwood, writes to us saying:—'` Being subject to an affected Liver, the result, doubtless of many years spent in India, I was recommended to try ' Backham's Liver Pals.. So beneficial did I find them, that I have never been without them or used any other medicine since, for one each week, under Gods blessing, is ample to keep my spirits, appetite, digestion, and health in perfection. 1 never fail to persuade my friends who I hear complath to try them, and whoever does so are as delighted and astonished at the great benefit they derive and become as enthusiastic in voluntarily advertising Backhanis Pills as myself. I never knew them to fail, being all that is claimed for them. You have my full consent to use my name and letter in any way you choose, for if I can, in any proper way. fitißlet in bringing your invaluable Pills to the notice of suffering humanity I shall feel that I am helping in a good cause,"—These Pills are sold by all Chemists at Is lid and Is 9d... or snot poet free for 15 steonpa by the Proprietors. J. CIAIARMAI4 MID Co., St • a. Notwich.--ADTr.