Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 23 August 1845
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SATURDAY.
BRIDGET HANBURY, (ticket-of-leave,) remanded from Thursday, under the following circumstances.
It appeared that on the preceding Wednesday, the store at Captain MAYNE’s residence, at Toongabbee [sic], was discovered to have been entered, and also that some articles, among which were a pair of sheets belonging to a Mr. ROCHE, who was staying with that gentleman, had been dis-enterred [sic] from a trunk where they had long previously been buried, and during the time the loser and the person immediately in charge of the store, were debating who had been the resurrectionist, or undertaker on the occasion, the prisoner entered the store, and descanting on the hole in the window, through which the entrance had been gained, remarked how improbable it was that she could have been the person who had paid the take leave visit which judging from her rotundity of person, and the smallness of the aperture in the casement, would have been a miracle of the camel and needle-eye character. The remark however excited suspicion, and she was given in custody, and subsequently on her bed being searched, underneath it a portion of a sheet was found, of the same quality as those lost, and a half-made petticoat the size of which exactly corresponded with the piece that had been cut out of the article in question. HANBURY was then remanded—and to-day, the overseer of the farm stated that on throwing the straw out of the prisoner’s bed-tick, three small parcels dropped out, which on being examined were found to contain net and ribbon, and which his wife now swore to have been stolen from her box some time previously, MR. ROCHE now sheeting the calico home to the prisoner, and the overseer’s wife proving the other articles to be the net produce of misappropriation, notwithstanding BRIDGET emphatically declaring she was the victim of a bed-fellow, who must have deposited the things in the tick for which she had the credit — the Bench made her indulgence a Tic Doulourex, by cancelling it and ordering her 6 months 3rd class.
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