A ROMANCE IN HUMBLE LIFE.

Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 61, 12 March 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

A ROMANCE IN HUMBLE LIFE.

An incident which took place at the North London Police Court lately was founded on somewhat similar lines to the great pearl robbery, though on a smaller scale. Phoabe West, a girl of 11, worked for Mrs Rush ton, and stole a watch and looket, valued at £2. "When the theft was discovered the girl was accused, and her mother suspected of disposing of the articles. Both stoutly denied having any hand in the mysterious disappearance until the watch, battered with the view of preventing recognition, was produced from a pawnbroker's with whom it had been pledged for 58. Confronted with the acousing timepiece, mother and daughter were constrained to admit their guilt, the latter attempting to clear her not too-honest parent by taking all the blame upon herself. In the dock of the court the mother fell upon her knees, clasped her hands before the magistrate, and pleaded for m«rcy. Mr. Corser deemed her %^ of the two, because h.B bettered it was she who had damaged the watch to get rid of

it all the easier. The girl was bound over to come up for judgment if called upon, while the mother was fined 255, with the alternative of 14 days in prison.